It is probably not a good idea to ask someone to expound a position they do not accept and do not feel they even fully understand.

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 words are not the inspiration, I am the inspiration.

There's no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it - and get on with it.

If the pace and the push, the noise and the crowds are getting to you, it's time to stop the nonsense and find a place of solace to refresh your spirit

Ive been a stand-up comedian for years, and I can be silly.

Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.

Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions.

Beauty is something we can affirm and intend to have more of. What happens then is our perceptual ability, no matter where we are, expands in that direction.

Although wealth may not bring happiness, the immediate prospect of it provides a wonderfully close imitation.

Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.

You have touched my heart in so many ways with your gentle tenderness, I am lost forever in your love.