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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
How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.
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Beyond Ourselves Regard Understand
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Break Up End Human
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man Philosophy
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
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
Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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Heaven Hope Human Laughter Sleep
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
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Independent Man Understand
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Beautiful See
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Humanity Moral
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
Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.
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Man Moral Potential Purpose Reality Wild
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
You must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.
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Freedom Moral Willing Yourself

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