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

Immanuel Kant

From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Humanity Moral
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People
In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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Mathematics Science
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
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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Business Greatness Material Reason
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
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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Art Beautiful Nature
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
Woman wants control, man self-control.
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Control Man One Liner Woman
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Happiness Ideas Imagination Reason
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Philosophy Spiritual
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
Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Creation Dignity Value

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