From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
IMMANUEL KANTOut of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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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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But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.
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What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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Woman wants control, man self-control.
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
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Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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