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" Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved. "

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" He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals. "

" Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them. "

" Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck. "

" Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. "

" Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason. "

" Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. "

" Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. "

" It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably. "

" What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope? "

" Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. "

" All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope? "

" It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience. "

" Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. "

" From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned. "

" I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief. "

" All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. "

" Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands. "

" In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so. "

" But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience. "

" Ingratitude is the essence of vileness. "

" A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose. "

" Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me. "

" The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason. "

" Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law. "

" By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man. "

" Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge. "

" It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy. "

" Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.' "