Мислите без съдържание са празни, нагледите без понятия са слепи. - Immanuel Kant

A plant, an animal, the regular order of nature — probably also the disposition of the whole universe — give manifest evidence that they are possible only by means of and according to ideas; that, indeed, no one creature, under the individual conditions of its existence, perfectly harmonizes with the idea of the most perfect of its kind — just as little as man with the idea of humanity, which nevertheless he bears in his soul as the archetypal standard of his actions; that, notwithstanding, these ideas are in the highest sense individually, unchangeably, and completely determined, and are the original causes of things; and that the totality of connected objects in the universe is alone fully adequate to that idea.

Но такова уж обычно судьба человеческого разума, когда он пускается в спекуляцию: он торопится поскорее завершить свое здание и только потом начинает исследовать, хорошо ли было заложено основание для этого. Тогда он ищет всякого рода оправдания, чтобы успокоить нас относительно его пригодности или даже совсем отмахнуться от такой запоздалой и опасной проверки.

Moral Teleology supplies the deficiency in physical Teleology, and first establishes a Theology; because the latter, if it did not borrow from the former without being observed, but were to proceed consistently, could only found a Demonology, which is incapable of any definite concept.