The moral law is simply the way we think our own freedom as self-determination.

I do not know how much my own work has achieved, and I must not pretend it has done more than it has.

Since we cannot know too much about the long term effects of our particular lives, and since success and fame are not good measures of the value of what we have done, it should be enough for any of us that as far as we can tell, in some small way we have made humanity's future better rather than worse.

In fact people do not know enough about themselves and what is good for them to form a sufficiently definite conception of the general happiness (or whatever the end is) to establish definite rules for its pursuit.

People are often most proud of precisely those things of which they should most be ashamed.

We totally misunderstand both his aims and his contribution if we try to read into Marx some anticipation of either the modest successes or the disastrous failures of those who later thought they were acting in his name.

It is probably not a good idea to ask someone to expound a position they do not accept and do not feel they even fully understand.