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Immanuel Kant

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity Philosophy
The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Greatness People Respect Worth
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Courage Daring Intelligence
What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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Emotion Ourselves Relationship Separate
Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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Easy Greatness Philosophy
Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Experience Teaching
Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
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Goodness Possible Willing World
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Divine Reason
If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Justice Live Man Worth
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
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.
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Man Moral Potential Purpose Reality Wild
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

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