Reason necessarily expresses itself through emotions and emotions are healthy only insofar as they are expressions of reason.

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.

Creating Identity

Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

When we're doing our lessons, the teacher doesn't say, 'Ready, set, work,' They say, 'Ready, set, play,' and I always took that word seriously.

I would not be happy to do what I do unless I felt that the large audience wanted it.

Everything I listen to is influential in some way.

I don't believe in capital per se or a priori but I do occasionally believe in personal capital vis-a- vis psychic energy exchange. I use the word "capital" only poetically.

I like to be stylish and edgy, but also low maintenance.

The sun beams are always there. The trick is in seeing them.

I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.