Immanuel Kant, Idea for a General History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose (1784), Proposition 6.
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
— Immanuel Kant on Humanity
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made." in the context of "Immanuel Kant, Idea for a General History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose (1784), Proposition 6." to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Humanity" (K)
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