Fichte is a necessary step to both Hegel and Marx.

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

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.

Kant's system of duties constitutes a Doctrine of Virtue because the duties also indicate what kinds of attitudes, dispositions and feelings are morally virtuous or vicious.

Godshawk looked surprised, the way that people generally do when you ask them philosophical questions in shrubberies in the middle of the night.

There's no backward and no forward, no day other than this. You fill your cart as you go, and that's that.

Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.

The idea here is simple, if you can dream it, it is possible.

Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.

The Higher Self is whispering to you softly in the silence between your thoughts.

[The photographer's task] is to describe the existing light... Chances are, if you believe the light, you're going to believe that the things photographed existed in the world.

foolish men say things in anger that they later regret and an angry tongue does not mean one is guilty.

I think people are into me because of my music choices and my musicality.

If anybody gets highbrow around the studio, out he goes.