Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Idea for a General History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose (1784), Proposition 6
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Variant translations: Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be built.
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.Immanuel Kant
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