Notice that tearing oneself out of the insensible state is the opposite of remaining in it; the man who is beneficent from duty nevertheless acts with feelings, if not with empirical inclinations.

I do not know how much my own work has achieved, and I must not pretend it has done more than it has.

Reason necessarily expresses itself through emotions and emotions are healthy only insofar as they are expressions of reason.

Fichte is concerned with freedom as non-domination.

We can make mistakes about what we ought to do, and these are not the same as making bad decisions about what to do.

I think the contribution people make is not proportionate to their fame or success. In fact, I think the relation is often inverse.

Consequentialist theories begin with a very simple and undoubtedly valid point: Every action aims at a future end, and is seen as a means to it.