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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

Immanuel Kant

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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Animal Heart Himself Judgement Man
Woman wants control, man self-control.
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Control Man One Liner Woman
Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Material Science World
The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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Hands Perspective See
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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Education Hope Lie Perfection
Since the human race’s natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.
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Break End Human Race
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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End Knowledge Ourselves Reason Understand
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Happiness Hope Love
In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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Mathematics Science
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.
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Goodness Impossible Philosophy Willing World
But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge Ourselves
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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Greatness Human Philosophy

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