My own view is that Kant's conception of the duality of the good (morality and happiness, the good of our person and the good of our state or condition) is a distinctively modern view.

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 had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan's look good.

I know I'm not very popular on Long Island. I don't know who's less popular, me or Joey Buttafuoco.

There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other.

Many people will say, well, clothes should be worn; but I think people can look at them in public, like seeing a film. I think museum exhibitions are very important

I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show up in his prose, and there isn't a hell of a lot he can do about it.

Good things come to those who wait.

Men don't want another man to look at their woman because they don't know how to handle it

The soul is no longer honored as it once was, but it still keeps appetite from being the measure of all things.

If you expect the worst from people, that's exactly what you'll get.

I cannot stress the importance of pausing to take a few deep breaths throughout the day. It's simple and effective.