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

Immanuel Kant

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man 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
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Courage Philosophy Reason Spiritual
Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Justice People
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
The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.
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Act Judgement Life Result
What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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Emotion Ourselves Relationship Separate
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
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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Happiness Moral Ourselves Self Love Worth
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
It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
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Existence Man Philosophy Reason
Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Material Science World
Woman wants control, man self-control.
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Control Man One Liner Woman
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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Beautiful Judgement Opinion

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

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