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From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.

Immanuel Kant

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
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Hope Myself
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
The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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Freedom Man Release Religion
Since the human race’s natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.
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Break End Human Race
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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Art Beautiful Nature
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
Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
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Goodness Possible Willing World
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Action Moral Responsibility Worth
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
The history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.
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Freedom God History Man Nature
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Man Spiritual
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary

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