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

Immanuel Kant

Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
IMMANUEL KANT

God Hell Knowledge
But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge Ourselves
We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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Hands Perspective See
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
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
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.
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Act Judgement Life Result
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
Woman wants control, man self-control.
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Control Man One Liner Woman
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
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
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
The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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Freedom Man Release Religion
Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Break Up End Human
Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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Experience Mindset Reality Space Time

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

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