From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
IMMANUEL KANTHe who would know the world must first manufacture it.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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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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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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