Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of ev… - Immanuel Kant

Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.

Contra esa negligencia o banal modo de pensar que rebusca el principio entre motivaciones y leyes empíricas tampoco cabe promulgar con excesiva frecuencia demasiadas advertencias, porque, para no extenuarse, a la razón humana le gusta reposar sobre tal almohada y, al soñar con simulaciones más melifluas (que sin embargo le hacen estrechar entre sus brazos una nube en vez de abrazar a Juno), suplanta a la moralidad por un híbrido cuyo bastardo parentesco es de muy distinto linaje y que se parece a cuanto uno quiera ver en él, si bien jamás le confundirá con la virtud aquel que haya contemplado una sola vez su verdadero semblante.

Let us suppose there was a teacher of whom an historical record (or, at least, a widespread belief which is not basically disputable) reports that he was the first to expound publicly a pure and searching religion, comprehensible to the whole world. … Suppose that all he did was done even in the face of a dominant ecclesiastical faith which was onerous and not conducive to moral ends (a faith whose perfunctory worship can serve as a type of all the other faiths, at bottom merely statutory, which were current in the world at the time). Suppose, further, we find that he had made this universal religion of reason the highest and indispensable condition of every religious faith whatsoever … and this without further adding to this faith burdensome new ordinances or wishing to transform acts which he had initiated into peculiar holy practices, required in themselves as being constituent elements of religion. After this description one will not fail to recognize the person who can be referenced, not indeed as the founder of the religion which, free from every dogma, is engraved in all men’s hearts (for it does not have its origin in an arbitrary will), but as the founder of the first true church.