Every human being should always be treated as an end and never as a mere instrument.

Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason.

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

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

Laws always lose in energy what the government gains in extent.

Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done

We assume a common sense as the necessary condition of the universal communicability of our knowledge, which is presupposed in every logic and every principle of knowledge that is not one of skepticism.