Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
IMMANUEL KANTMan must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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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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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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