Human reason is by nature architectonic.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

There is no virtue in penance and fasting which waste the body; they are only fanatical and monkish.

Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785)

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.

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