If the problem of free will is to see how freedom fits into the order of nature, then Kant's basic view about the free will problem is that it is 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.

Do not be passive when you feel discouraged

Not all writers are crazy. Only the ones who are serious enough about their craft.

When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.

The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats.

These possessions of a simpleton being the three I choose and cherish: to care, to be fair, to be humble.

I believe in freedom of speech. And I believe that spending on political campaigns is a form of political speech that is protected under the constitution.

As it somehow always manages before the winter solstice, but never after, the early darkness was cheerful and promising, even for those who had nothing.

Writing is hard, even for authors who do it all the time.

I hope to work, support my children and die quietly without pain.

there's not a boy on the planet worth this amount of angst. I know; i used to be one