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

Immanuel Kant

I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
IMMANUEL KANT

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.
IMMANUEL KANT

End Knowledge Ourselves Reason Understand
Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
IMMANUEL KANT

Courage Daring Intelligence
War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.
IMMANUEL KANT

Human Inspirational Love Man War
The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
IMMANUEL KANT

Freedom Man Release Religion
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
IMMANUEL KANT

Experience Intellectual Play
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Greatness People Respect Worth
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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Children Patience Time Truth
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Divine Reason
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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Beautiful Judgement Opinion
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
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Beautiful See
Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Freedom Human Right
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
IMMANUEL KANT

Happiness Ideas Imagination Reason
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
IMMANUEL KANT

Humanity Moral

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

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