Kein Mensch ist so wichtig, wie er sich nimmt. - Immanuel Kant

I express the principle of one's freedom as a human being in this formula: No one can compel me (in accordance with his beliefs about the welfare of others) to be happy after his fashion.

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

The history of mankind can be seen, in the large, as the realization of Nature’s secret plan to bring forth a perfectly constituted state as the only condition in which the capacities of mankind can be fully developed, and also bring forth that external relation among states which is perfectly adequate to this end.