Kant thinks we can show that there is no contradiction in supposing we are free.

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.

We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.

something must go within to bring what is within out. Oh yes! You need something within to bring what is within out!

You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.

There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.

A lot of people in their 30's get nostalgic for their teen years. Then they get jobs in TV, become bitter and jaded and prematurely old. Then they turn their nostalgia into great television.

It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.

David Boaz has been my guide to the history, economics, and politics of freedom for years.

Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.

Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy.