It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

Physicians think they are doing something for you by labeling what you have as a disease

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

There is nothing higher than reason.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise.

Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful.

With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war.