Quote #58
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
More from Immanuel Kant
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- Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be worthy of happiness.
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- Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.