There is no comfortable middle path where we get to provide a rational justification for our basic moral, religious and common sense beliefs.

The struggle against subjectivism was the attempt to avoid the charge of what was then called "idealism" or "nihilism", i.e., that we know nothing more than our own representations.

Hegel remains of great importance to understand ourselves, but essentially because we have all grown out of a reaction against Hegel.

All the spookiness comes from giving a contemporary anachronistic sense to terms whose historical meaning is lost to us.

The idea of romanticising the world goes back to the idea of creating a harmonious whole where the individual will feel at one with himself, others and nature.

To live well is to live in harmony with ourselves, others and nature, and that idea of harmony is, of course, an aesthetic one.

The absolute as the idea is neither subjective nor objective; it is the intellectual structure under which they are subsumed.

The great German idealists from Kant to Hegel saw this idealism or nihilism as a reductio ad absurdum of any philosophy, and so they struggled by all conceptual means to avoid it.

You only have to talk to artists to see that they work according to rules, and that they know all too well that they can employ only certain means to achieve the ends they want.

That Hegel is a metaphysician, and that he thinks metaphysics is fundamental to philosophy, is plain enough from his definition of philosophy.

There was no Prussian bastion to stop the Scotsman's swift conquest of the territory once claimed by reason.

Doing without will wear on you until temptation is stronger than character, sometimes.

Self-confident people face their fears head-on and are willing to take risks.

We would not have been a successful family without my father and stepfather, who were working-class men with better dreams for their children. We just wore them out.

I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.

We/I am a son/daughter of God. In fact, we are all expressions/projections of the Infinite Conciousness, which is love, that is what I mean when I say "I am a son of god "GOD"!"

Everybody is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.

Does Donald Trump accept the results and concede graciously, pursue legal action, or tell his followers to take to the streets?

The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.

I told myself after 2008 that I was done for good. But they say you can't keep a gymnast away from her sport.

When you get to my age, you’ll measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. That’s the ultimate test of how you’ve lived your life.