It would be nice, wouldn't it? if we could get comfortable about the problem of freedom. Kant thinks that we can't.

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.

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.

If the risk-reward ratio is right you can make big money buying trouble.

Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience?

I wouldn't piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.

Eating is a natural way to feel happy. Overeating isn't.

I love people. And when you love people that much that you're disappointed in them every day, that love can turn to hate in a flash of a second.

I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.

A powerful performance will transform everyone in the room.

Knowing that all things contrary to God's laws are transient, let us avoid despair and radiate hope for a warless world.

Amnesiac was written to make fun of senior citizens with alzheimers. I hate them and I wish they'd die.