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

Immanuel Kant

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
IMMANUEL KANT

Humanity Philosophy
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Happiness Ideas Imagination Reason
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Courage Philosophy Reason Spiritual
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
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
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
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
To be is to do.
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Action Existence
Dare to think!
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Daring Thinking
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
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 cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Happiness Humanity Misery Reason
Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Courage Daring Intelligence
Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Experience Teaching
It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.
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Goodness Impossible Philosophy Willing World
It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
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Existence Man Philosophy Reason
Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Break Up End Human
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
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
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas
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
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
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
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
IMMANUEL KANT

Humanity Philosophy

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

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