Drunk, if you like; so much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.
Human freedom is realized in the adoption of humanity as an end in itself, for the one thing that no-one can be compelled to do by another is to adopt a particular end.
Thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous.
There are more fools in the world than there are people.
Virtue never has been as respectable as money.
There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
As children, we were taught to be 'good' boys and girls, which of course implies we were not that already. We were taught we're good if we clean up our room, or we're good if we make good grades. Very few of us were taught that we're essentially good. Very few of us were given a sense of unconditional approval, a feeling that we're precious because of what we are, not what we do.
When a person hasn't in him that which is higher and stronger than all external influences, it is enough for him to catch a good cold in order to lose his equilibrium and begin to see an owl in every bird, to hear a dog's bark in every sound.
Those that say that individuals are not capable of changing anything are only looking for excuses.
Human reason is by nature architectonic.