Hegel's theory of recognition is basically derived from Fichte, who is its real author.

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 wanted to live among books.

My heart is so smallit's almost invisible.How can You place such big sorrows in it?"Look, " He answered, "your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.

Through uninhibited relationship with God you are empowered to function

You will never find me in trouble. You will find me in the library. If you can remember where that is.

Everybody deserves a fresh start every once in a while.

Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.

If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music.

An open sack hides nothing, And an open door hides little, but an open man is surely hiding something. lini is quoted by Nynaeve.

I'm quite repulsed by the diva type.

The past isn't over. It isn't even past.