Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites.

A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else’s life is simply immoral.

A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.

The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.

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

The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally.

The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs.