Any emancipation consists in the fact that it restores the world to man, restores interpersonal relations to man.
Every social form of property has its own morality.
Talking about "natural justice" is nonsense.
The state educates its members by making them members of the state, by transforming private ends in general, gross instinct, into moral inclinations, natural independence, into spiritual freedom.
A rude, ill-educated man is ready to regard some passer-by as the worst and vilest creature on earth just because he has trampled on him. He makes his beatings a measure of human deeds.
For the socialist, the whole of so-called universal history is nothing but the birth of man through the work of man.
To be able to use things, man must be a man of culture.
Dignity is what elevates man the most, what gives supreme nobility to his activity and all his aspirations.
The ancients used to say: you should aspire to gain worldly goods to help your friends in need. What deeply human wisdom these words contain!
If marriage were not considered the foundation of the family, it would not be subject to legislation, as, for example, friendship is.
If legislation cannot decree morality, much less can it declare immorality to be legal.
When building the future tenses is not our business, we know better what to do in the present.
If the circumstances in which an individual lives make accessible to him only the one-sided development of a particular quality to the detriment of all others, this individual cannot overcome a one-sided development. No amount of moral preaching will help in this case.
If interest properly understood constitutes the principle of all morality, we must therefore strive to make the private interest of an individual coincide with universal human interests.
If modesty is a characteristic feature of research, this is more a sign of fear of truth than fear of falsehood.
If you love without reciprocity, in other words, if your love does not give birth to a shared love, if your life as a loving person does not make you yourself loved, then your love is powerless, and it is a misfortune.
If you want to admire art, you must be an artistically educated person.
If you want to influence others, you need to be a person who really stimulates and encourages others to move forward.
If a human character is created by certain conditions, we must therefore make these conditions more human.
If man works only for himself, he may perhaps become a renowned scholar, a great sage, an excellent poet, but he can never become a truly perfect and great man.
Brutality is characteristic of laws dictated by cowardice, because cowardice can only be energetic if it is brutal.
Laws that punish for principles are based on a lack of principle, an immoral, coarse view of the state. These are an involuntary cry of guilty conscience.
Ideas can achieve nothing. For the realization of some ideas, people are needed who must make a practical effort.
The ideas with which our mind chains our consciousness are bonds from which it is impossible to escape without breaking your heart, these are the demons that man can overcome only by yielding.
Namely, hypocrisy hides behind God, not believing either in His reality or in the power of good; Namely, selfishness puts personal salvation above the salvation of the social whole.
The knowledge of truth must be true in itself, true knowledge is unfolded truth.
Truth is universal, not just me. The truth possesses me, and I do not possess the truth.
Truth is as modest as light.
True love manifests itself in discretion, modesty, even shyness of the lover towards his idol, and not in an explicit display of passion and premature familiarity.
Truly moral behavior consists precisely in avoiding any pretext for immoral behavior.