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

Immanuel Kant

Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People
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
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity Philosophy
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
Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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Experience Mindset Reality Space Time
To be is to do.
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Action Existence
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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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.
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Goodness Impossible Philosophy Willing World
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
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Man Spiritual
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Death Kill Truth
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Humanity Philosophy
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Divine Reason
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
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
Dare to think!
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Daring Thinking
The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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Hands Perspective See
Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Material Science World
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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Feeling Life Live
Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Material Science World
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
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Act Law Moral Time

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

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