It is a cause of shame to any member of the human race to be a member of the same species some of whose members could vote for any candidate for president that has been offered by the Republican party. Such people seem to be motivated only by short-sighted greed, ignorance, fear and hatred.

Kant was a rational theologian. He did not pretend to be a biblical or revealed theologian.

We can establish empirical criteria for free actions, and investigate human actions on the presupposition we are free.

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

It is a culturally interesting (but also deeply depressing) fact that many religious claims seem to retain their emotional power for believers only if taken in ways that are intellectually unsupportable and even morally contemptible.

Until I was a junior in high school, I was a "boy scientist" type and expected to go into chemistry. Then I discovered the humanities. I read the plays of Shakespeare voraciously, some novels, such as Pasternack's Dr. Zhivago and Sinclair Lewis' Main Street, and I got into philosophy by reading Kierkegaard and Nietzsche.

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