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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Immanuel Kant

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Discipline Himself Man Nature Wild
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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Animal Heart Himself Judgement Man
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity Philosophy
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Material Science World
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
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
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
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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End Knowledge Ourselves Reason Understand
War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.
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Human Inspirational Love Man War
Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Courage Daring Intelligence

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

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