The possibility of the freedom which thus expresses itself is the greatest prerogative of man, which is for ever wanting to the brute, because the condition of it is the deliberation of reason, which enables him to survey the whole of life independent of the impression of the present.
-Horrela kanporatzen den askatasuna gizakiaren pribilejiorik handiena da, zeina animaliari beti ukatzen baitzaio, zeren arrazoimenaren gogoetamena, zeinak presenteko inpresioarekiko independentzian bizitzaren osotasuna gainbegiratzeko aukera ematen baitu, horren baldintza baita.