Kant, Immanuel

"Literature is the expression of human experience through language."

"The greatest literature expresses universal human truths."

"Philosophy is the love of wisdom."

"The ultimate goal of philosophy is to achieve wisdom."

"A man of perseverance will achieve his goals."

"Perseverance is the virtue that ensures success."

"Gratitude is the foundation of all virtue."

"A grateful heart is a happy heart."

"Creativity is the expression of the human spirit."

"The creative person sees possibilities where others see obstacles."

"Justice is the highest virtue of the state."

"A just society is built on the rule of law."

"Hope is the companion of virtue."

"Where there is hope, there is life."

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

"Sapere aude! Dare to know! Have courage to use your own understanding."

"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe: the starry heavens above and the moral law within."

"I am never less alone than when alone."

"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."

"Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another."

"Man can become free only through education."

"The good will is not good because of what it effects or accomplishes, but only because of its willing."

"Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another."

"Genius is the ability to voluntarily abandon thought."

"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

"The function of true philosophy is to clarify, not to obscure."

"Persons are ends in themselves and must never be treated merely as means."

"In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind."

"Everything is full of gods."