"A good will is not good because of what it effects or accomplishes—because of its fitness for attaining some proposed end: it is good only by virtue of the volition—that is, it is good in itself."

"All political theories, if they are to be consistent, must proceed from the principle that man is a free and rational being."

"A human being who is supposed to make use of his reason for himself needs only freedom, nothing else."

"The fact that the beautiful is the symbol of the morally good, and that it is only in this respect that it gives us pleasure with a claim to the agreement of everyone, is a point of which everyone wou…"

"The Jews still cannot claim any true genius, any truly great man."