Thus, if materialism is inadequate to explain my existence, then spiritualism is equally insufficient for this purpose. - Immanuel Kant

The public use of a man's reason must be free at all times, and this alone can bring enlightenment among men...

What is more, we cannot do morality a worse service than by seeing to derive it from examples. Every example of it presented to me must first itself be judged by moral principles in order to decide if it is fit to serve as an original example...even the Holy One of the gospel must first be compared with our ideal of moral perfection before we can recognize him to be such.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is
made nothing entirely straight can be carved .