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

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.

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

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 is no point in getting rich if we lose our soul along the way.

The hour is only long thus, if you've waited.

The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he dies blind.

Look for the seams (on a knuckleball) and then hit in-between them.

It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

The whole damned country was depending on me.

Why do I have to follow CNN on Twitter? If I want to follow CNN, I can follow them on CNN.

Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration.

You've got some 'Star-Spangled' nails in your coffin, kid. That's what they've done for you, son.

Education affects every major challenge we face in society. It creates economic growth, paves the way for peace and stability and helps erase the legacy of marginalization.