Many who are committed to reason and science have turned against religion altogether and treat it with fear and contempt.

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.

I didn't know how I could want things so badly while making it impossible to ever get them.

To keep a warm heart in winter is the real victory.

The most valuable commodity of the 21st century will be undivided attention.

The three most important things in retail are location, location, location. The three most important things for our consumer business are technology, technology, technology.

To be a great leader of people - inspire them to follow you, not your rules.

It looks to me, looking out the hatch, that we are venting something. We are venting something out into the - into space.

Obama's dense as a doorbell; not much going on up there - it's a wooden top.

The Tao of the sage is work without effort.

Religion is, in fact, the dominion of the soul; it is the hope, the anchor of safety, the deliverance from evil. What a service has Christianity rendered to humanity!

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.