Quote by Immanuel Kant Download Open image ““From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.”” — Immanuel Kant ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“From the crooked timber of humanity, never was a straight thing made.” — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.” — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Nothing in nature is that even; man is the inventor of straight edges.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Straight, huh? You know, funny thing is, often the straightest of trees have crooked roots.” — Ella Frank Copy Share Image
“Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw. It was its tendency to bend at the knees.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“while the world wasn’t built for humans, we were built for the world.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“In nature, nothing is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways and they're still beautiful.” — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“All of us were made by someone else, and all of us have some thread of steel that nothing and no one can cut.” — Victoria Aveyard Copy Share Image
“A pretty building I'm making, without either bricks or timber. I'm up i' the garret a'ready, and haven't so much as dug the foundation.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Straight lines evidently belonged only to geometry, not to nature and life.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
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… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed any — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
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… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Jeg skal alltid handle slik at den regelen jeg handler etter kunne gjelde som allmenn lov.” — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be subject to… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image