定言命令只有一条，那就是：要只按照你同时能够愿意它成为一条普遍法则的那个准则去行动。
译文：一杯酒下肚，试问身后的虚名又算得了什么?人间万事常常是细微如毫发的事情被看得很重，而泰山般重要的大事却被轻视。最悲伤的莫过于生离死别，最快乐的莫过于结识新的知己，这种情感古今皆同。富贵不是我追求的事，我只愿与白鸥结盟，归隐江湖。
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.