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Immanuel Kant

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Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be built
IMMANUEL KANT From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
IMMANUEL KANT From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
EDWARD HAND From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned
EDWARD HAND Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing can ever be made.
IMMANUEL KANT Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
IMMANUEL KANT That which is crooked cannot be made straight and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
ECCLESIASTES Immanuel Kant would've made a lousy lawyer, but a great judge!
STEPHEN GILLERS To do is to be (Socrates); To be is to do (Immanuel Kant); Do Be Do Be Do (Frank Sinatra)
KEN NDARU In the construction of houses, choice of woods is made. Straight un-knotted timber of good appearanc...
MIYAMOTO MUSASHI But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much ca...
HORACE MANN God made man out of nothing, and as long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.
MARTIN LUTHER Immanuel Kant famously claimed that 'he who wills the ends wills the means,' but he never sp...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line...
ALFRED NOBEL For a man, the soul of a woman is a preserving talisman, guarding him from moral infections; it is a...
NIKOLAI GOGOL Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.
LOUISE BOGAN I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothi...
GEORGE MACDONALD a crooked truth is far straight than a straight lie
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction be...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I wanted a love thick with time, as inscrutable as if a lathe had carved it from night and as famili...
ROSHANI CHOKSHI I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kant's idea that the world as we see it is absolutely ...
BERNARD BECKETT Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight lin...
SUN MYUNG MOON If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.
GEORGE HERBERT The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really t...
ELISABETH ELLIOT No public man can be just a little crooked.
HERBERT HOOVER What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Nothing in nature is that even; man is the inventor of straight edges.
STEPHEN KING If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which ...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which ...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of ...
FRANCIS JEFFREY Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time,Why should I strive to set the crooked straight?
WILLIAM MORRIS You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
W. C. FIELDS I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent...
JAMES A. MICHENER Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Cro...
JAMES P. HOGAN Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shal...
BIBLE A crooked log makes a strait fire [A crooked log makes a straight fire.]
GEORGE HERBERT When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in f...
ORIGEN There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called c...
ROBERT BURNS A gay man can be friends with a straight man. That can happen.
STEVE GUTTENBERG Art is a mystery.A mystery is something immeasurable.In so far as every child and woman and man may ...
E. E. CUMMINGS Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
ANATOLE FRANCE Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labour by taking up another.
ANATOLE FRANCE Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another
ANATOLE FRANCE A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
ALEXANDER SOLZEHNITSYN A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
ALEXANDER SOLZENITSYN Nothing is sacrosanct and nothing is carved in stone so nobody should assume that they have the righ...
KLAUS KLEINFELD As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any ...
BHAGAVAD GITA Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the ...
JOSEPH ADDISON There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and ye...
ROBERT LYND There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and ye...
ROBERT WILSON LYND There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
SAMUEL BUTLER These mountains appear to be almost entirely composed of stratas of rock of various colours (mostly ...
WILLIAM HENRY ASHLEY There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Nothing, nothing, nothing, no error, no crime is so absolutely repugnant to God as everything which ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD We have seen / Good men made evil wrangling with the evil, / Straight minds grown crooked fighting c...
EDWIN MUIR My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. "Why don't you have a str...
TOM WAITS As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tende...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tende...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No,...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I watch Fox news for the comedy, MSNBC when I need to be reminded that mind midgets exist and CNN wh...
JAMES SCOTT If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.
CHINESE PROVERB If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.
CHINESE PROVERBS There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants c...
BIBLE Nothing is as it seems, but something is everything it is made out to be.
CARROLL BRYANT Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
NIELS BOHR Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius
WILLIAM BLAKE Naked a man comes from his mother’s womb, and as he comes, so he departs. He takes nothing from hi...
KING SOLOMON The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the ...
RUDOLF OTTO He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no dou...
JOHN GALSWORTHY The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide.
JEFF MELVOIN An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.
NEILS BOHR An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
NIELS BOHR There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
PETER DRUCKER There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
PETER F. DRUCKER There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capa...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The laboratory is the highest containment laboratory that you can make and, from that point of view,...
DR. SIR JOHN SKEHEL Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
H. G. WELLS Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known.
FRANCIS JEFFREY Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
W.C. FIELDS You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
W. C. FIELDS More cotton will grow on a crooked row than a straight one.
BARBARA SWELL I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
SAMUEL JOHNSON There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the First Amendment, as though it were...
KURT VONNEGUT So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of do...
SAMUEL JOHNSON A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own...
JOHN STUART MILL Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks i...
SIDNEY J. HARRIS The hike is brutal, straight-out pure cardio pain. There's nothing great about that.
ERIK SKARVAN Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. N...
JOHN F. KENNEDY To stand up straight and tread the turning mill,
To lie flat and know nothing and be still,
A.E. HOUSMAN

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