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

Immanuel Kant

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
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Humanity Moral
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Divine Reason
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Courage Daring Intelligence
Dare to think!
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Daring Thinking
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World
We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
Since the human race’s natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.
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Break End Human Race
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
Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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Experience Mindset Reality Space Time
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Action Moral Responsibility Worth
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
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
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

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

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