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“Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.”
Immanuel Kant book Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose
Idea for a General History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose (1784), Proposition 6.
Variant translations: Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be built.
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
Never a straight thing was made from the crooked timber of man.
Source: Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose
Morrie Schwartz (1916–1995) American sociologist
“Don’t let go too soon, but don’t hang on too long.”
Morrie Schwartz (1916–1995) American sociologist
“Death ends a life, not a relationship”
Morrie Schwartz (1916–1995) American sociologist
“Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others.”
Morrie Schwartz (1916–1995) American sociologist
“If you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.”
Morrie Schwartz (1916–1995) American sociologist
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and let it come in”
Morrie Schwartz (1916–1995) American sociologist
Source: Morrie: In His Own Words
Clint Eastwood (1930) actor and director from the United States
On Rawhides impact on his beginning acting career
Zmijewsky, Boris; Lee Pfeiffer (1982). The Films of Clint Eastwood. p. 20. Secaucus, New Jersey: Citadel Press. ISBN 0806508639.
Clarence Thomas (1948) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
1990s, I Am a Man, a Black Man, an American (1998)
“There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.”
Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer
Source: The Powerbook
“Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?”
Yann Martel book Life of Pi
Source: Life of Pi
Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer
HIStory: Past, Present & Future, Book I (1995)
“If my eyes could show my soul, everyone would cry when they saw me smile.”
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist