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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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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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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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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What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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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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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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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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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Woman wants control, man self-control.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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