“If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.”

A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.

How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.

By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.

The hand is the visible part of the brain.

Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.

Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!

Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.

The history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

If the truth shall kill them, let them die.

Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.

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

Friend, have the courage To care little for wealth, and shape yourself, You too, to merit godhead

Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.

You know what music is? God’s little reminder that there’s something else besides us in this universe; harmonic connection between all living beings, every where, even the stars.

Never expect God to do for you what you don’t do to others.

Those who care for the little ones are on God’s side and defeat the culture of waste.

The Trinity is therefore Love, all in service of the world, which He wishes to save and recreate.

God will take care of what you go through. You take care of how you go through it.

If the blind put their hands in God’s, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.