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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.
IMMANUEL KANT

Humanity Moral
Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Experience Teaching
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
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
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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Education Hope Lie Perfection
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
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
There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
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Bad Philosophy Protection Weakness
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
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
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity Philosophy
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Hope Myself
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich

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