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

Immanuel Kant

If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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God Man Philosophy Religion Talk
War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.
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Human Inspirational Love Man War
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Death Kill Truth
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Happiness Hope Love
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Beautiful See
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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Heaven Law Mindset Moral Myself
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
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Courage Philosophy Reason Spiritual
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
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
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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Experience Mindset Reality Space Time

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

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