Empiricist philosophy always tends to be anti-philosophy (and is often proud of it).

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.

Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities.

She actually isn't so bad, now that I'm getting to know her. She's just a little messy on the outside. But aren't we all?

These are Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I am Tyler's mouth. I am Tyler's hands.

Phrases such as "I'm beside myself, " "I was frightened to pieces, " "I feel lost, " "I feel like part of me is missing, " originated from a sense of soul loss.

The most identifiable trait of Anglo-Saxons is that we always mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

If we will concentrate on the best, that element will grow until it sparkles.

Does anybody who gave up smoking to save a pound a week have a pound at the end of the week? Not on your life.

The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States.

My daughter has a problem picking things up in her room. So if you leave your clothes on the floor, so if you leave your clothes on the floor, they're gone when you come home.

Are you not aware that there comes a midnight hour when everyone must unmask...