I think the contribution people make is not proportionate to their fame or success. In fact, I think the relation is often inverse.

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.

My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement

The more I love, the more flowers bloom in my heart.

The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period of time.

Your angels are giving you strength and comfort right now.

We must pay attention to the voice that calls us out of the safety zone.

Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect.

I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.

Our problem is civil obedience

Ross Perot. I could have had a ball with him.

Children's books are written for upbringing...but upbringing is a great thing; it decides the fate of the human being.