Immanuel Kant

"From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned. "

"Have patience awhile slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee. "

"May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law. "

"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. "

"So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. "

"The history of the human race, viewed as a whole may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed. "