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From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.

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If we were to suppose that mankind never can or will be in a better condition, it seems impossible to justify by any kind of theodicy the mere fact th...more

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As nature has uncovered from under this hard shell the seed for which she most tenderly cares - the propensity and vocation to free thinking - this gr...more

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...new prejudices will serve as well as old ones to harness the great unthinking masses.For this enlightenment, however, nothing is required but freed...more

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...[F]reedom... is a property of all rational beings.

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It must be freely admitted that there is a sort of circle here from which it seems impossible to escape. In the order of efficient causes we assume ou...more

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Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at ...more

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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.