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

Immanuel Kant

If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
IMMANUEL KANT

God Man Philosophy Religion Talk
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
Woman wants control, man self-control.
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Control Man One Liner Woman
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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Book Goodness Mindset Past Reading
Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Material Science World
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Discipline Himself Man Nature Wild
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity Philosophy
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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Children Patience Time Truth
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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Happiness Moral Ourselves Self Love Worth
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Divine Reason
We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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Beautiful Judgement Opinion
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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Education Hope Lie Perfection
For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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Human Humanity Learning Peace
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right
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

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

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