Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law.

Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person's freedom.

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

It is through good education that all the good in the world arises.

The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does.

For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.

But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained, as in the case of pleasure gardens, room decoration, all sorts of useful utensils, and so on, any regularity that has an air of constraint is [to be] avoided as much as possible. That is why the English taste in gardens, or the baroque taste in furniture, carries the imagination's freedom very far, even to the verge of the grotesque, because it is precisely this divorce from any constraint of a rule that the case is posited where taste can show its greatest perfection in designs made by the imagination.