No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought.

On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self.

Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day.

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.

Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.

What man is, only his history tells.

The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.

From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.

The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in his development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever he had to make an important decision.

The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and to their foundation.

Never such innocence, Never before or since, As changed itself to pastWithout a word--the menLeaving the gardens tidy, The thousands of marriagesLasting a little while longer:Never such innocence again.

A dream doesn't die because it has no truth. It dies because you fail to nurture it.

It's not about making the right choice. It's about making a choice and making it right.

If there are malpractices in sports, part of the solution lies in the organisations themselves taking a very strong view and cleaning up the mess from within.

How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?

I was only an aspiring dictator. I was never a real dictator.

Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.

The American Cancer Society has done the American public a really great disservice.

I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity.

To fight a bigger guy you need to train with bigger guys and it takes a lot more on your body. And it's not your weight class.