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> [“From the crooked timber of humanity, never was a straight thing made.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/from-the-crooked-timber-of-humanity-never-was-a-straight-thing-made/)

[Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/)

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> [Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/aus-so-krummen-holze-als-woraus-der-mensch-gemacht-ist-kann-nichts/)

[Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/)

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> [From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/from-such-crooked-wood-as-that-which-man-is-made-of-nothing-straight/)

[Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/)

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> [“From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/from-the-crooked-timber-of-humanity-a-straight-board-cannot-be-hewn/)

[Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/)

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> [“From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/from-such-crooked-timber-as-humanity-is-made-of-no-straight-thing-was/)

[Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/)

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> [Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/out-of-the-crooked-timber-of-humanity-no-straight-thing-was-ever-made/)

[Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/)

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## Other authors on Crooked

## More by Immanuel Kant

> [Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/even-if-a-civil-society-were-to-be-dissolved-by-the-consent-of-all/)

[Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/)

> [How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/how-then-is-perfection-to-be-sought-wherein-lies-our-hope-in/)

[Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/)

> [Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/heaven-has-given-human-beings-three-things-to-balance-the-odds-of/)

[Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/)

> [Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/beauty-presents-an-indeterminate-concept-of-understanding-the-sublime/)

[Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/)

> [Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/freedom-is-that-faculty-that-enlarges-the-usefulness-of-all-other/)

[Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/)

> [Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/philosophical-knowledge-is-the-knowledge-gained-by-reason-from/)

[Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/)

> [A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/a-categorical-imperative-would-be-one-which-represented-an-action-as/)

[Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/)

> [When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed any](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/when-i-could-have-used-a-wife-i-could-not-support-one-and-when-i/)

[Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/)

> [Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the motto of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/enlightenment-is-the-liberation-of-man-from-his-self-caused-state-of/)

[Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/)

> [The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/the-ideal-of-the-supreme-being-is-nothing-but-a-regulative-principle/)

[Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/)

> [“Jeg skal alltid handle slik at den regelen jeg handler etter kunne gjelde som allmenn lov.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/jeg-skal-alltid-handle-slik-at-den-regelen-jeg-handler-etter-kunne/)

[Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/)

> [Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be subject to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/deaths-births-and-marriages-considering-how-much-they-are-separately/)

[Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/)

> [It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/it-is-precisely-in-knowing-its-limits-that-philosophy-consists/)

[Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/)

> [A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else’s life is simply immoral.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/a-society-that-is-not-willing-to-demand-a-life-of-somebody-who-has/)

[Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/)

> [. . . as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/as-to-moral-feeling-this-supposed-special-sense-the-appeal-to-it-is/)

[Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/)

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