"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no……" — Immanuel Kant
"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."
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229 Quotes by Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant has 229 quotes on this site.
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I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within…
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Prudence approaches, conscience accuses.
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The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has…
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Laws always lose in energy what the government gains in extent.
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Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.
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...as soon as we examine suicide from the standpoint of religion we immediately see it in its true light. We…
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.
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What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.
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Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a…
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Honesty is better than any policy.
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Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live…
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More Crooked Quotes
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one of 228 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and…
— Edward Abbey
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their…
— Erma Bombeck
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Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees…
— Chanakya
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Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and…
— Steve Allen
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If you walked by a street and you was walking a concrete and you saw a rose growing from concrete,…
— Tupac Shakur
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Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my…
— Black Elk
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He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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I should think it takes a fairly low intellect to draw pleasure from the following activity: hitting a ball with…
— George Carlin
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He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he…
— Alfred the Great
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Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first.…
— Lewis Blaine Hershey
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