Fichte Quote by Novalis

“In my freshman and sophomore years of college, I read dozens of books by the great thinkers of Western civilization. From Plato to Nietzsche,…

— Stefanie Weisman

“Kant offered his students the world-wisdom (Weltweisheit)6 necessary for becoming a good world citizen in such a way that “elegance and appreciation of the…

— Patrick Frierson

“(This sect (the Encyclopaedists) propagate with much zeal the doctrine of materialism, which prevails among the great and the wits; we owe to it…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“Over the last two decades, elites in even many formerly socialist countries came to uphold an ideal of cosmopolitan liberalism: the universal commercial society…

— Pankaj Mishra

“Another force to straighten the warped wood is political. Man is “an animal that, if he lives among other members of his species, has…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

“Our four figures, by contrast, voiced themes of strong collectivism in ethics and politics with calls for individuals to sacrifice for society, whether society…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.

— Alfred Nobel

“The consequence of this, morally, is that the individual is of less significance than the state. The individual’s empirical, day-to-day interests are of a…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

“A man of broad principles. Of liberal sentiments. Even a generous man...Yet one might say that his way through the world was so broad…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Organizing one’s system around the A5 Active Knower is an essential feature of the Kantian Paradigm: the examination of anything else, including history, must…

— Lee Braver

[Kant] was like many people: in intellectual matters he was skeptical, but in moral matters he believed imjplicitly in the maximx that he had…

— Bertrand Russell

“I felt convinced that however it might have been in former times, in the present stage of the world, no man's faculties could be…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley