Humanity Quote by Immanuel Kant Download Open image ““From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.”” — Immanuel Kant ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Humanity Moralism
“From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.” — Immanuel Kant 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
“So sturdy and solid, so wide, so thick, none of that delicate wristy business of my imaginings. Built like an oak tree, against which… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“But Hercules himself must yield to odds; And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hews down and fells the hardest-timber'd oak.” — 3 Henry Vi II.i.5355 Copy Share Image
“You can't shape people, just like you can't shape wood. You've got to find the heart and work from there. There's no such thing… — James Church Copy Share Image
“Straight, huh? You know, funny thing is, often the straightest of trees have crooked roots.” — Ella Frank Copy Share Image
“When necessary bend like a willow, when necessary stand unbending like an oak.” — K. Natwar Singh Copy Share Image
“Any brute can break something. It takes finesse to mold and shape it to your own desires.” — Kate Avery Ellison Copy Share Image
“Make it bend — trees are flexible, so they don’t snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch — perfect trees don’t exist. Nothing… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“His nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often in every direction that it is impossible to straighten… — Marcel Proust 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
Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“If attempting to make the world a civilized one, makes you a bad woman in the eyes of the dumb patriarchal society, then, by… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I now know that deep within the human concept is something dark, selfish, and completely willing to do whatever is necessary to support the… — Melissa West Copy Share Image
The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
“He grew away from old associations, and saw something new in life and humanity. Secondarily, he made close acquaintance with phenomena which he had… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
What is accurately portrayed is the rich humanity not just of Martin Luther King but of the movement, which was a multiracial movement. You… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
He is not humanity deified. He is not Godhead humanized. He is God. He is man. He is all that God is, and all… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
