Feminine traits are called weaknesses. People joke about them; fools ridicule them; but reasonable persons see very well that those traits are just the tools for the management of men, and for the use of men for female designs.

Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.

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

Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful.

Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori.

Do the right thing because it is right.

Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.