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

Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties..

Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the motto of….

Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions),….

The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend — and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him..

When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself in a state that could be ….

We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action..

Law And Freedom without Violence (Anarchy) Law And Violence without Freedom (Despotism) Violence without Freedom And Law (Barbarism) Violence with Fr….

I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present..

If we could see ourselves... as we really are, we should see ourselves in a world of spiritual natures, our community which neither began at birth no….

There is nothing higher than reason..

How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else..

The ultimate destiny of the human race is the greatest moral perfection, provided that it is achieved through human freedom, whereby alone man is cap….

But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows..

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

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law..

It is never too late to become reasonable and wise..

This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little impressi….

Physicians think they are doing something for you by labeling what you have as a disease.

If, like Hume, I had all manner of adornment in my power, I would still have reservations about using them. It is true that some readers will be scar….

Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order..