People are often most proud of precisely those things of which they should most be ashamed.

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.

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.

Kant's system of duties constitutes a Doctrine of Virtue because the duties also indicate what kinds of attitudes, dispositions and feelings are morally virtuous or vicious.

There is no greater gift of love than that of an animal choosing to share part of his soul’s journey here with you.

My soul feels reborn each time I see you

Religions are easy to invent. Most traditional religions have little or nothing to do with reality, are dependent on obfuscation, interpretation, guilt, and unreasoning faith.

Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.

Watch out for the icy patch

I've never stopped trying to do what's right. I'm not doing it to earn favor with God. I'm doing it because it's the right thing to do.

The avowed policy of non-co-operation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital.

Most of you live your life on flimsy little songs, not upon the word of God.

Speaking of August Rodin: He raised his world above us in an immense arc, and made it a part of nature.

Thank God for beautiful songs about feeling despair when you yourself are in despair. They really get us through.