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

Immanuel Kant

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
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Genius Independent Learning Person
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Humanity Moral
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
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Act Law Moral Time
The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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Feeling Life Live
Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Courage Daring Intelligence
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Man Spiritual
Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Philosophy Spiritual
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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Easy Greatness Philosophy
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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Beyond Ourselves Regard Understand
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
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation

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

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