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

Immanuel Kant

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
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Act Law Moral Time
The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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Hands Perspective See
If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Justice Live Man Worth
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Divine Reason
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
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
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Action Moral Responsibility Worth
Dare to think!
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Daring Thinking
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
How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.
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Beyond Ourselves Regard Understand
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
The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Happiness Humanity Misery Reason
You must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.
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Freedom Moral Willing Yourself
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience 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

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

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