But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

Maturity is having the courage to use one's own intelligence!

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

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

But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained, as in the case of pleasure gardens, room decoration, all sorts of useful utensils, and so on, any regularity that has an air of constraint is [to be] avoided as much as possible. That is why the English taste in gardens, or the baroque taste in furniture, carries the imagination's freedom very far, even to the verge of the grotesque, because it is precisely this divorce from any constraint of a rule that the case is posited where taste can show its greatest perfection in designs made by the imagination.

Thinking in pictures precedes thinking in words.

Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished.