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

Immanuel Kant

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
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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God Goodness Herself Man Nature
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
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
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
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
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Man Spiritual
What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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Emotion Ourselves Relationship Separate
In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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Mathematics Science
Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
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Genius Independent Learning Person
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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Easy Greatness Philosophy
Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Break Up End Human

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