Sometimes when a philosopher's views are widely rejected by the world, the fault is not with the philosopher but with the world.

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.

In solitude, the deep silent, awakens the divinity of the soul.

Don’t always complain the way isn’t there. If you can’t find the way, create it.

Prayer is meeting with God. It's checking in, saying I am here, You are here. It is the present moment.

Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one's thoughts.

In an ideal world, I'd be able to do my shows in my pajamas. Luckily I've got one of the best stylists in the business, Rebecca Allen - she knows what looks good on camera and gives it a sexy kick.

You'll never see any two good actors approach a role in the same way.

I perceive my limitations even as I work. There are times when I see nothing but restrictions, barriers. Learning takes time.

And I'm a Hailsham student - which is enough by itself sometimes to get people's backs up.

For a Christian, our fears about the future are rooted in those places where our will differs from God's will.

If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.