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

Immanuel Kant

By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Discipline Himself Man Nature Wild
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
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
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
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
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity Philosophy
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas
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
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Born Death Mad Moral
Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Material Science World
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
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Beautiful See
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
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World

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

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