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

Immanuel Kant

He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World
There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
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Bad Philosophy Protection Weakness
The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Greatness People Respect Worth
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
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
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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Happiness Moral Ourselves Self Love Worth
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Discipline Himself Man Nature Wild
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Born Death Mad Moral
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
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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Hands Perspective See
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Courage Philosophy Reason Spiritual
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
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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Independent Man Understand
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary

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

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