1. “One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.”
2. “The reading of all good books is like a conversion with the finest minds of past centuries.”
3. “Men must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.”
4. “We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.”
5. “Only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.”
6. “Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.”
7. “But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.”
8. “The death of dogma is the birth of morality.”
9. “It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.”
10. “Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.”
11. “Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.”
12. “Better the whole world perish than the injustice be done.”
13. “Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.”
14. “Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
15. “Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.”
16. “Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.”
17. By a Lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.”
18. “Notion without intuition is empty, intuition without notion is blind.”
19. The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.”
20. “The only thing permanent is change.”
