“I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.”

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.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.

We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.

For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.

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.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.

The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.

A sign of a culture that has lost its faith – Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.

The Lord does not abandon us! Even if we are men and women ‘of little faith.