From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
IMMANUEL KANTSince the human race’s natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.
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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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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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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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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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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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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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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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