From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
IMMANUEL KANTNature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.
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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.
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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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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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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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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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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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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Woman wants control, man self-control.
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