Kant takes a free will to be a being or substance with the power to cause a state of the world (or a whole series of such states) spontaneously or from itself.

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 privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

I know that when I like music, when it touches my heart, that it will touch your heart, too. That, I think, is the secret to my success.

I think being prepared for anything is the way to go.

No one in the United States has the right to own millions of acres of American land, I don't care how they came by it.

Conquering the world on horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard.

for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.

Well, you're young. You know a lot you won't know later on.

Our car looks better than everything I've seen so far.

We really did it write it for the story but once you get into production, once you start doing this process certain things will jump out at you. Some shots will be more 3-D than others.

Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay; My major vow lies here, this I'll obey.