From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
IMMANUEL KANTYou must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.
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Dare to think!
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Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
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Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
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Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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Woman wants control, man self-control.
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Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.
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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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