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From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.

Immanuel Kant

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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End Knowledge Ourselves Reason Understand
Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Freedom Human Right
Woman wants control, man self-control.
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Control Man One Liner Woman
Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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Heaven Hope Human Laughter Sleep
To be is to do.
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Action Existence
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
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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Art Beautiful Nature
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Material Science World
The 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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Freedom God History Man Nature
Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Material Science World
Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Creation Dignity Value
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Humanity Philosophy
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
But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge Ourselves

From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.

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