The idea of romanticising the world goes back to the idea of creating a harmonious whole where the individual will feel at one with himself, others and nature.

The struggle against subjectivism was the attempt to avoid the charge of what was then called "idealism" or "nihilism", i.e., that we know nothing more than our own representations.

There is no comfortable middle path where we get to provide a rational justification for our basic moral, religious and common sense beliefs.

Hegel remains of great importance to understand ourselves, but essentially because we have all grown out of a reaction against Hegel.

All the spookiness comes from giving a contemporary anachronistic sense to terms whose historical meaning is lost to us.

To live well is to live in harmony with ourselves, others and nature, and that idea of harmony is, of course, an aesthetic one.

The absolute as the idea is neither subjective nor objective; it is the intellectual structure under which they are subsumed.

The great German idealists from Kant to Hegel saw this idealism or nihilism as a reductio ad absurdum of any philosophy, and so they struggled by all conceptual means to avoid it.

You only have to talk to artists to see that they work according to rules, and that they know all too well that they can employ only certain means to achieve the ends they want.

That Hegel is a metaphysician, and that he thinks metaphysics is fundamental to philosophy, is plain enough from his definition of philosophy.

There was no Prussian bastion to stop the Scotsman's swift conquest of the territory once claimed by reason.

Life is an unfinished art, few master it, most just bark.

And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine.

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

To practice kata is not to memorize an order. Find the katas that work for you, understand them, digest them & stick with them for life.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.

Hunger steals the memory

On 'Morning Joe' I can say what I think, be my sometimes unorthodox self, have fun, yet be serious as well.

I can assure you President Trump and I are completely focused on the issues that matter most to the American people.

Words can't express what you mean to me.

I don't think you go to a play to forget, or to a movie to be distracted. I think life generally is a distraction and that going to a movie is a way to get back, not go away.