Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day.

On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self.

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.

Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.

What man is, only his history tells.

The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.

From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.

The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in his development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever he had to make an important decision.

The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and to their foundation.

No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought.

Will there never be an end that also has a beginning? Will there never be continuity bridging the awful void between now and some other time, a time in the future, a time in the past?

I was the first f****** hippy to enter this business, you know... I was one of the first girls to say I don't give a f*** about this whole supermodel thing.

If I had my life to live over again, I would ask that not a thing be changed, but that my eyes be opened wider.

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.

The thing about 'Star Trek' is that it is not judgmental. You can do what ever you want, within reason.

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

ONE THING I AM NEVER GOING TO DO WHEN I GROW UP Is fall in love, drop out of college, learn to subsist on water and air, have a species named after me, and ruin my life.

I want men to be more chic - and Japanese style has that kind of sophisticated elegance.

I would consider myself simply a critic of the market economy. My standard isn't primarily political. First of all, it's ecological. And then I get to matters that are social and cultural.

Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words