You only know me as you see me, not as I actually am

There can be no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Riches ennoble a man's circumstances, but not himself.

Do what is right, though the world may perish.

God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.

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.

The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs.