Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

I am myself by inclination an investigator.

God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason.

The two great dividers are religion and LANGUAGE

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

An organized product of nature is that in which all the parts are mutually ends and means.