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

Immanuel Kant

But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
IMMANUEL KANT

Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Material Science World
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
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
Dare to think!
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Daring Thinking
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
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Act Law Moral Time
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
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
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
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
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play

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

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