The Kantian philosophy is no more than at best a half-secularized version of such a theocratic ethics, with "Reason" in the place of God. This does not amount to much more than a change of names.

Asking what the question is, and why the question is asked, is always asking a pertinent question.

Neither the good nor the true is self-realizing, so it is not generally a sufficient explanation of why people believe that X is true, or of why people do Y that Y is good.

The idea that all problems either have a solution or can be shown to be pseudo-problems is not one I share.

One way ... in which a political philosophy can be ideological is by presenting a relatively marginal issue as if it were central and essential.

Sometimes we believe it is truth, not because it is truth but because it has been made truth by law or tradition. Some of those truths are nothing but dogmatized myths

Sometimes, all it takes to lift the sadness from another is to let them know how much you appreciate them and how grateful you are having them in your life.

This is how good movies get made and always have: from the gut instinct of the financiers, not just by committee and research.

It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it.

Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!

If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.

I love feeling like I have purpose and maybe that's the purpose I'm giving myself.

Do you want your life to truly take off? Then change your idea about it. About you. Think, speak and act as the God You Are.

For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.