Kant thinks of judgment as a special faculty or talent of the mind, not reducible to discursive reasoning but cultivated through experience and practice.

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.

A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him.

There is no point in getting rich if we lose our soul along the way.

To marry and have children, that is the common lot of women. Only one woman in a hundred--more, in a thousand, can make for herself a name and position as you have done.

The philosopher is not the spokesman of his age, but an angel imprisoned in time.

Trust is greater than love.

Every American carries in his bloodstream the heritage of the malcontent and the dreamer.

Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun

The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now molds a horse, and when it has broken this up, it uses the material for a tree, then for a man, then for something else.

You're offering a great service. People are tuning in. So continue to find great people, continue to do what you're doing. And do it better than your rivals. I know that's easier said than done.

A spoonful of hope and a cup of despair