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

Immanuel Kant

Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
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
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Man Spiritual
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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God Man Philosophy Religion Talk
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
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.
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Human Inspirational Love Man War
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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Happiness Moral Ourselves Self Love Worth
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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Heaven Law Mindset Moral Myself
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
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right

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