Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.

The sum total of all possible knowledge of God is not possible for a human being, not even through a true revelation. But it is one of the worthiest inquiries to see how far our reason can go in the knowledge of God.

If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise of judgment.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off the yoke of immaturity themselves, will spread about them the spirit of a reasonable estimate of their own value and of the need for every man to think for himself.

A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.

Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order.