If I am to constrain you by any law, it must be one by which I am also bound.

Most men use their knowledge only under guidance from others because they lack the courage to think independently using their own reasoning abilities. It takes intellectual daring to discover the truth.

The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing.

Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.

Physicians think they are doing something for you by labeling what you have as a disease

The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience

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