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From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.

Immanuel Kant

I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
IMMANUEL KANT

Faith Knowledge Myself
There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
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Bad Philosophy Protection Weakness
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Experience Teaching
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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Freedom Man Release Religion
Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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Heaven Hope Human Laughter Sleep
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
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Independent Man Understand
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World
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
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas
Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Creation Dignity Value
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
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
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

From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.

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