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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

Immanuel Kant

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
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
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity Philosophy
If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Justice Live Man Worth
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Courage Philosophy Reason Spiritual
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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End Knowledge Ourselves Reason Understand
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
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
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Beautiful See
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
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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Education Hope Lie Perfection
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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Book Goodness Mindset Past Reading
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Man Spiritual

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

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