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

At some future day it will be proved, I cannot say when and where, that the human soul is, while in earth life, already in an uninterrupted communication with those living in another world.

Democracy is necessarily despotism, as it establishes an executive power contrary to the general will; all being able to decide against one whose opinion may differ, the will of all is therefore not that of all: which is contradictory and opposite to liberty.

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus a natural tendency that is very useful to morality in relation to other human beings is weakened.

[A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in some way violated these rights.

All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.