What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.

The arts of speech are rhetoric and poetry. Rhetoric is the art of transacting a serious business of the understanding as if it were a free play of the imagination; poetry that of conducting a free play of the imagination as if it were a serious business of the understanding.

If we knew that god exists, such knowledge would make morality impossible. For, if we acted morally from fear or fright, or confident of a reward, then this would not be moral. It would be enlightened selfishness.

Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law.

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

THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.

Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.