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 KANTOut of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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