Immanuel Kant

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; ere long she shall appear to vindicate thee.

The more we come in contact with animals and observe their behaviour, the more we love them, for we see how great is their care of the young.

The death of dogma is the birth of reality.

The desire of a man for a woman is not directed at her because she is a human being, but because she is a woman. That she is a human being is of no concern to him.

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

The possession of power unavoidably spoils the free use of reason.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.

Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.