From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
IMMANUEL KANTThe history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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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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From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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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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Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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