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

Immanuel Kant

Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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God Goodness Herself Man Nature
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Humanity Moral
If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Justice Live Man Worth
If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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God Man Philosophy Religion Talk
Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Courage Daring Intelligence
Since the human race’s natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.
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Break End Human Race
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity 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
The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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Greatness Human Philosophy
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.
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Heaven Law Mindset Moral Myself
What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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Emotion Ourselves Relationship Separate
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
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
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Death Kill Truth

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