God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.

Each according to his own way of seeing things, seek one goal, that is gratification.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else’s life is simply immoral.

The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally.

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

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.