We commit not only theoretical error but also moral wrong in objectifying ourselves or other rational beings, ignoring their capacities for free action and communicative interaction with 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.

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.

If you let go and let God than you will never have to worry about God letting Go

Live every day like it's your last. Treasure the moments you have, and make sure you make them count.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.

Ghosts cannot be put on the witness stand, or have their fingerprints taken. They are completely proof against proof.

It's quite astonishing how much money people make in the hedge fund business and in the private equity field, and how well-off affluent families really are.

All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.

Tallulah [Bankhead] never beat about the bush - she'd gossip about you in front of your back!

Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.