There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.

The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs.

One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity.

It is often necessary to make a decision on the basis of knowledge sufficient for action but insufficient to satisfy the intellect.

What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.

Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done

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