All the spookiness comes from giving a contemporary anachronistic sense to terms whose historical meaning is lost to us.

The struggle against subjectivism was the attempt to avoid the charge of what was then called "idealism" or "nihilism", i.e., that we know nothing more than our own representations.

There is no comfortable middle path where we get to provide a rational justification for our basic moral, religious and common sense beliefs.

Hegel remains of great importance to understand ourselves, but essentially because we have all grown out of a reaction against Hegel.

The idea of romanticising the world goes back to the idea of creating a harmonious whole where the individual will feel at one with himself, others and nature.

To live well is to live in harmony with ourselves, others and nature, and that idea of harmony is, of course, an aesthetic one.

The absolute as the idea is neither subjective nor objective; it is the intellectual structure under which they are subsumed.

The great German idealists from Kant to Hegel saw this idealism or nihilism as a reductio ad absurdum of any philosophy, and so they struggled by all conceptual means to avoid it.

You only have to talk to artists to see that they work according to rules, and that they know all too well that they can employ only certain means to achieve the ends they want.

That Hegel is a metaphysician, and that he thinks metaphysics is fundamental to philosophy, is plain enough from his definition of philosophy.

There was no Prussian bastion to stop the Scotsman's swift conquest of the territory once claimed by reason.

Just when you think things can't get any naughtier... they do!

Life would be simpler if only we were all unicorns.

Joy doesn't exist in the world, it exists in us.

Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.

If everybody's watching, you know, all of the back room discussions and the deals, you know, then people get a little nervous, to say the least. So, you need both a public and a private position.

The world is not real for me until it has been pushed through the mesh of language.

Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.

You don't have to be dishonest to communicate the gospel.

Bitcoin isn't tied to any commodity - besides trust.

Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man.