We can never prove that we are free or integrate our freedom in any way into our objective conception of the causal order of nature.

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.

Most people surrendered fairy tale hopes in exchange for cookie cutter lives

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.

Please make me either relatable or terrible.

Our joy now and forever is inextricably tied to our capacity to love.

Nevertheless, to the persecution and tyranny of his cruel ministry we will not tamely submit - appealing to Heaven for the justice of our cause, we determine to die or be free . . . .

He could build a city. Has a certain capacity. There’s a niche in his chest where a heart would fit perfectly and he thinks if he could just maneuver one into place – well then, game over.

Character is a strange blending of flinty strength and pliable warmth.

When we use a language, we should commit ourselves to knowing it, being able to read it, and writing it idiomatically.