“How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.”

The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.

If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.

From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.

We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.

I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.

You must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.

All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.

All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.

War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.

Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.

It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.

To be is to do.

But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.

Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.

Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.

It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power.

I never regret anything. I always said that when I’m old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn’t do; and now I’m old, and I don’t regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I’m still having it.

We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.

In order for me to achieve… I had to regard myself greater than what I was. In other words I had to fake it until I make it.

If you have a point of view regarding my style of work, keep it to yourself. You are not entitled to express your opinion.

Love is accepting people for who they are and what they are, regardless.