A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.

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

Thinking in pictures precedes thinking in words.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Both love of mankind, and respect for their rights are duties; the former however is only a conditional, the latter an unconditional, purely imperative duty, which he must be perfectly certain not to have transgressed who would give himself up to the secret emotions arising from benevolence.

Law And Freedom without Violence (Anarchy) Law And Violence without Freedom (Despotism) Violence without Freedom And Law (Barbarism) Violence with Freedom And Law (Republic)

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.