Man Desired Concord; But Nature Knows Better

Out Of The Crooked Timber Of Humanity, No Straight Thing Was Ever Made.

The Ideal Of The Supreme Being Is Nothing But A Regulative Principle Of Reason Which Directs Us To Look Upon All Connection In The World As If It Originated From An All-sufficient Necessary Cause.

A Lie Is The Abandonment And, As It Were, The Annihilation Of The Dignity By Man.

The Sceptics, A Kind Of Nomads, Despising All Settled Culture Of The Land, Broke Up From Time To Time All Civil Society. Fortunately Their Number Was Small, And They Could Not Prevent The Old Settlers From Returning To Cultivate The Ground Afresh, Though Without Any Fixed Plan Or Agreement.

Enlightenment Is Man's Emergence From His Self-incurred Immaturity.