On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self.

Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day.

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.

Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.

What man is, only his history tells.

The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.

From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.

The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in his development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever he had to make an important decision.

The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and to their foundation.

No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours.

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out brains to make room for it.

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

How many are worried about a government shutdown? How many are more worried about it starting back up?

I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.

Do you want me to call you Celery Stick instead of Cupcake or Honey-Pie? It just doesn’t inspire the same warm and fuzzy feelings.

A wise ruler takes advice, but should never be seen to take it. Let them think you know more than you do. It will not harm them, and it will help you.

I think when I stop fighting, I die in a sense.

Dance, like music, knows no geographical boundaries, no linguistic barriers and no racial divisions. All walls crumble where art is concerned. It is a great unifying and integrating force.