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

Immanuel Kant

The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Courage Philosophy Reason Spiritual
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
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Humanity Moral
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
Woman wants control, man self-control.
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Control Man One Liner Woman
The history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.
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Freedom God History Man Nature
Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Creation Dignity Value
Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Philosophy Spiritual
Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Experience Teaching
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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Animal Heart Himself Judgement Man
If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Justice Live Man Worth

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

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