At some future day it will be proved, I cannot say when and where, that the human soul is, while in earth life, already in an uninterrupted communication with those living in another world.

Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished.

Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.

Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.

But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained, as in the case of pleasure gardens, room decoration, all sorts of useful utensils, and so on, any regularity that has an air of constraint is [to be] avoided as much as possible. That is why the English taste in gardens, or the baroque taste in furniture, carries the imagination's freedom very far, even to the verge of the grotesque, because it is precisely this divorce from any constraint of a rule that the case is posited where taste can show its greatest perfection in designs made by the imagination.

The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.

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