On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.

If your life is founded on what you can see then your success will be insignificant and very brief

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.

Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other.

On account of its scale and complexity, the world will always outstrip the capacity of any single body to ask fertile questions of it.