I learned to honor human beings, and I would find myself far more useless than the common laborer if I did not believe that this consideration could impart to all others a value establishing the rights of humanity.

Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.

THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.

Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature compels him to leave ease... and throw himself into roils and labors.

The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.

The existence of the Bible is the greatest blessing which humanity ever experienced.

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.