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

Immanuel Kant

It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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Greatness Human Philosophy
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
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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Hands Perspective See
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
Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Creation Dignity Value
Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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God Goodness Herself Man Nature
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Death Kill Truth
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
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
Dare to think!
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Daring Thinking
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
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
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time

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

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