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

Immanuel Kant

Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Freedom Human Right
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
Woman wants control, man self-control.
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Control Man One Liner Woman
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right
What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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Emotion Ourselves Relationship Separate
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World
For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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Human Humanity Learning Peace
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
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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Children Patience Time Truth
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Hope Myself
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
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
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
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
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

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

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