We can't coherently deny, or even decline to affirm, that we are free.

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.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan, but also believe!

Accept things inf life and then start fighting. It is like knowing the armory skills of your opponent before beginning the battle.

There's so many interesting aspects of making a movie: the costume department, the set design, the casting itself, the locations.

I think thats what all New Zealanders who are fair-minded want - a good chance for everybody to get ahead, whether its education or housing.

If I could read while I was driving, showering, socializing or sleeping, I would do it.

It is a happy thing for us that this is really all we have to concern ourselves about--what to do next. No man can do the second thing. He can do the first.

Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.

My life has been transformed by great teachers all the way.

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks

Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death.