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

Immanuel Kant

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
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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Experience Mindset Reality Space Time
It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.
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Goodness Impossible Philosophy Willing World
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
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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Genius Independent Learning Person
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Man Spiritual
It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
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Existence Man Philosophy Reason
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
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
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning 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

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

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