The ultimate destiny of the human race is the greatest moral perfection, provided that it is achieved through human freedom, whereby alone man is capable of the greatest happiness.

The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.

The only thing that is good without qualification is a good will.

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

Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.

Man's duty is to improve himself; to cultivate his mind; and, when he finds himself going astray, to bring the moral law to bear upon himself.

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.