The moral law is simply the way we think our own freedom as self-determination.

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.

The Bible is the greatest love story ever told.

Whatever brings you down, will eventually make you stronger.

At the end of the day, audiences just want to laugh and be entertained. They want to escape from their reality, and that's why we make movies, to get people to escape from the realities.

I am absolutely desperate to win a Super Bowl.

A mans life will be of the character of his thought. His outward life will be as the inner impulse is.

I'm guided by my enthusiasm.

Faith is essentially intolerant ... essentially because necessarily bound up with faith is the illusion that one's cause is also God's cause.

When you start being enthusiastic about whatever it is you like, that is the golden age for you.

The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worst part of oneself.

Wherever there are men and women who have consecrated their lives to God, there you find joy.