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

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.

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

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books.

I’m just trying to make music everybody can get happy to and vibe to and turn up to. So long as I keep making good music, everything’s going to be OK.

Happiness can be reached by choice and how you look at life.

Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.

They must often change who would remain constant in happiness and wisdom.

If you can do what you do best and be happy, you’re further along in life than most people.

You need to be happy with yourself or you’ll never be able to be happy in a relationship.