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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
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Material Science World
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.
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Business Greatness Material Reason
If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Justice Live Man Worth
Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Experience Teaching
Dare to think!
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Daring Thinking
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity Philosophy
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
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Justice People
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
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
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself

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