Adam Smith was aware of the way that economic interests could have a distorting and destructive effect both on the market and on politics.

I think the term "Kantian constructivism" as an oxymoron. Kant was a constructivist about mathematics, but not about ethics.

Fichte is a necessary step to both Hegel and Marx.

Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect.

People are often most proud of precisely those things of which they should most be ashamed.

Our procedures of deliberation are not ways of finding out independent moral truths but instead ways of "constructing" these truths, in the process of deciding what to do.

Since the Enlightenment, popular religion has rejected the Enlightenment path and transformed itself into a bastion of resistance against reason.

In general, those who defend capitalism are basically out of touch with reality.

The relation of the law to the self is only a helpful way of thinking about the law, that helps us better understand its validity for us.

Kant says that we may regard ourselves as legislator of the moral law, and consider ourselves as its author, but not that we are legislators or authors of the law.

Leaders of nations, and people whose wealth or fame gives them power over the lives of others quite often do more harm than good.

Does it hurt?" The childish question had escaped Harry's lips before he could stop it. "Dying? Not at all, " said Sirius. "Quicker and easier than falling asleep.

Almond milk + cinnamon crunch = major key to success.

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.

My face is a transparent transmitter of my every thought.

I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue.... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.

The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.

I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. Rowling's work. I am a known 'Harry Potter' fan.

I appreciate some people enjoy reality TV and enjoy being a part of it - and I do watch it - but it isn't for me.

I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.

I've lived enough of my life story to know this- Fate writes the book, but you make the movie.