Why were a few, or a single one, made at all, if only to exist in order to be made eternally miserable, which is infinitely worse than non-existence?

I have no knowledge of myself as I am, but merely as I appear to myself.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.

[A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in some way violated these rights.

Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties.

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.