We usually can't know how, and we probably should not even ask, how our lives contribute to a better world.

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.

No sooner was the wound given than the remedy was provided and revealed.

A lot of the scripts I read and the characters I get are 'the girl' in romantic films, and I don't know how comfortable I am, or the world is, with me being that.

You don't throw away a whole life just because it's banged up a little.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country.

Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched.

It's very liberating when you finally realize it's impossible to make everyone like you.

Employees, especially young people, want more than a paycheck.

There's been so many different types of musicals and it's a funny genre because there's a fine line between clever and stupid. It really takes a genius to know how to do it.

If you see distraction externally, you end up creating an internally distracted state.