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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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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."
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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."
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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."
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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."
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"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."
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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
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"The true religion is to be posited not in the knowledge or confession of what God allegedly does or has done for our salvation, but in what we must do to become worthy of this."
Religion
"Woman wants control, man self-control ."
Control
"We must admit thatlaw must be valid, not merely for men, but for all rational creatures generally, not merely under certain contingent conditions or with exceptions, but with absolute necessity."
Law
"A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose."
Action
"Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person."
Genius
"Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind."
Thought
"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law."
Ethics
"But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience."
Experience
"Inexperienced in the course of world affairs and incapable of being prepared for all the chances that happen in it, I ask myself only 'Can you also will that your maxim should become a universal law?' Where you cannot it is to be rejected..."
Ethics
"The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs."
Understanding
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