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.

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.

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.

Kant's system of duties constitutes a Doctrine of Virtue because the duties also indicate what kinds of attitudes, dispositions and feelings are morally virtuous or vicious.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

Share your story with someone. You never know how one sentence of your life story could inspire someone to rewrite their own.

Very potent influence on myself has been Finnish.

All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.

The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.

She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that came and went like the stars.

I'm very disturbed to find out that the leader of the Townies has a soul and I'm beginning to develop a bit of a crush on him.

I never killed a guy who didn't deserve it.

I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out.

Memories - you can't escape them, but you can't let them rule you either.