Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end.

Physicians think they are doing something for you by labeling what you have as a disease

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

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.

The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing.

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

. . . as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe that feeling will help them out, even in what concerns general laws: and besides, feelings which naturally differ infinitely in degree cannot furnish a uniform standard of good and evil, nor has any one a right to form judgments for others by his own feelings. . . .