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

We ourselves introduce that order and regularity in the appearance which we entitle "nature". We could never find them in appearances had we not ourselves, by the nature of our own mind, originally set them there.

The two great dividers are religion and LANGUAGE

Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites.

The light dove, in free flight cutting through the air the resistance of which it feels, could get the idea that it could do even better in airless space. Likewise, Plato abandoned the world of the senses because it posed so many hindrances for the understanding, and dared to go beyond it on the wings of the ideas, in the empty space of pure understanding.

Time is not an empirical concept. For neither co-existence nor succession would be perceived by us, if the representation of time did not exist as a foundation a priori.

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