Virtues consist not only of acting in certain ways, but in ways of caring and feeling.

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.

I especially like eavesdropping on women my age. Besides being titillating, it also helps me gauge where I'm at in comparison.

In the history of mankind, no single person yet has learned to swim by having the strokes explained. At some point, they dive in.

We want books that are written for those of us who doubt everything, who cry over the least little thing, who are startled by the slightest noise.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

I maintained my edge by always being a student; you will always have something new to learn.

God's not afraid of a mess. He wants to do a cleaning.

One of my favorite things about my job is getting to hang around with people who really know what they're talking about.

To be furious, is to be frighted out of fear.