It seems to me self-evident that it is worthwhile to understand the best thoughts of the past, to appropriate them, to criticize them.

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.

If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are hiding, waiting everywhere. You just have to open your eyes and your heart.

As we work together as a team, God grows our dreams into something greater than we can accomplish alone.

Mankind is busily manufacturing its way into extinction.

Love - a grave mental disease.

Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.

I'm always being inspired .

A metallurgist is someone who can look at a platinum blonde and tell whether she's virgin material or a common ore.

One symbol of lack of democracy is to have cars parked on the sidewalk.

The Bible has the answers to our everyday life. Many times people don't realize how practical it is.

So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem.