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

Immanuel Kant

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
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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Man Moral Potential Purpose Reality Wild
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity Philosophy
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Experience Teaching
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Humanity Moral
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
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Divine Reason
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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Human Humanity Learning Peace

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

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