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

Immanuel Kant

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Divine Reason
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
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 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
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Hope Myself
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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Animal Heart Himself Judgement Man
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Discipline Himself Man Nature Wild
We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
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
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity Philosophy
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
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
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
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

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