Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name.

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

Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.

Laws always lose in energy what the government gains in extent.

Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the motto of the Enlightenment.

This spirit of freedom is expanding even where it must struggle against the external obstacles of governments that misunderstand their own function. Such governments are illuminated by the example that the existence of freedom need not give cause for the least concern regarding public order and harmony in the commonwealth. If only they refrain from inventing artifices to keep themselves in it, men will gradually raise themselves from barbarism.