Freedom is a permanent problem for us, both unavoidable and insoluble.

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.

and the afterglow...of your gaze...is the onlysweater that I need.

Unless there are good feelings between people, reasoning intelligently is almost impossible.

When asked if she would accept his affairs to try to keep her marriage, she commented, "I do. I think that speaks for itself.

I had no place to put anything. I would give my sculpture away because I had no place to put it.

Undoubtedly, Patsy Cline was a trailblazer and in that respect, all women who are singular in a man's field have a special power.

If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning.

We all know about blogs and how big they are.

It is interesting that the investment industry has invented new ways to lose money when the old ways seemed to work just fine.

Cabbages, whose heads, tightly folded see and hear nothing of this world, dreaming only on the yellow and green magnificence that is hardening within them.

I try to get enough sleep and exercise, try not to make mountains out of molehills, and vent a lot. I have a good team to support my work. I also do lots of mundane things, which will center me.