Immanuel Kant

Use every distraction as an object of meditation and they cease to be distractions.

All of humanity is living in a dream world, but suffering real consequences.

The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not being a thief any more. Thieving is God’s message to him. Let him try and be a good thief.

This gives force to the strong — that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

The only thing grief as taught me is to know how shallow it is.

Beauty rests on necessities.

It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.

How can you dare teach a man to read until you’ve taught him everything else first?

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?