Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful.
No state at war with another state should engage in hostilities of such a kind as to render mutual confidence impossible when peace will have been made.
It is never too late to become reasonable and wise.
Notion without intuition is empty, intuition without notion is blind.
Great minds think for themselves.
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.