From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
IMMANUEL KANTFrom the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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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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Woman wants control, man self-control.
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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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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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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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Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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To be is to do.
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