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Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.

Immanuel Kant

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man Philosophy
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
IMMANUEL KANT

Humanity Philosophy
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
The history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.
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Freedom God History Man Nature
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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God Goodness Herself Man Nature
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Humanity Moral
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Action Moral Responsibility Worth
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
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge

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