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

Immanuel Kant

Woman wants control, man self-control.
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Control Man One Liner Woman
A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.
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Business Greatness Material Reason
There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
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Bad Philosophy Protection Weakness
To be is to do.
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Action Existence
Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
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Goodness Possible Willing World
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right
The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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Freedom Man Release Religion
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
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas
It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.
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Goodness Impossible Philosophy Willing World
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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Experience Mindset Reality Space Time
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
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
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Humanity Philosophy
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

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

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