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.
IMMANUEL KANTExperience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Woman wants control, man self-control.
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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.
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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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From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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