Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished.

An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.

Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785)

Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.

Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.