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

Art is purposiveness without purpose.

The infinitude of creation is great enough to make a world, or a Milky Way of worlds, look in comparison with it what a flower or an insect does in comparison with the Earth.

But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents.

Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me... Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man.