“Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.”

Freedom is the opposite of necessity.

Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.

Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.

The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.

Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.

Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.

One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.

Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.

They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.

That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.

Going through a rough break-up? Nothing a little dance party with friends can’t ease.

Don’t cry for a man who’s left you, the next one may fall for your smile.

You always have a choice. It’s just that some people make the wrong one.

Love is Love no matter old you are, and I knew if I gave you enough time, you’d come back to me.

The road to love is full of danger signs.

Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.