black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Immanuel Kant

Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
IMMANUEL KANT

Crime Justice Moral Protection Right
We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
IMMANUEL KANT

Material Philosophy Rich
The hand is the visible part of the brain.
IMMANUEL KANT

Hands Perspective See
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.
IMMANUEL KANT

Business Greatness Material Reason
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
IMMANUEL KANT

Art Purpose
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
IMMANUEL KANT

Heaven Law Mindset Moral Myself
Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
IMMANUEL KANT

Goodness Possible Willing World
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
IMMANUEL KANT

Dignity Lie Man
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
IMMANUEL KANT

Bad Perspective Philosophy
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
IMMANUEL KANT

Humanity Man Philosophy
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.
IMMANUEL KANT

Goodness Impossible Philosophy Willing World
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
IMMANUEL KANT

Freedom Necessary
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
IMMANUEL KANT

Humanity Moral
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.
IMMANUEL KANT

Freedom God History Man Nature
Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
IMMANUEL KANT

Material Science World
But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
IMMANUEL KANT

Beginning Experience Knowledge Ourselves

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Immanuel Kant Quotes