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

Immanuel Kant

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
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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Beautiful Judgement Opinion
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose
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
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
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
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
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
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Born Death Mad Moral
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man Philosophy
The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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Freedom Man Release Religion
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right
Dare to think!
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Daring Thinking
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

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

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