We usually can't know how, and we probably should not even ask, how our lives contribute to a better world.

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

It would be nice, wouldn't it? if we could get comfortable about the problem of freedom. Kant thinks that we can't.

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.

Capitalism has proven to be a far more terrible system than Marx could ever bring himself to imagine. Those who are so deluded as to find something good in it, or even feel loyalty toward it, are its most pitiful victims.

Kant attempted to work out a view of religion and religious belief according to which existing religions could be brought into harmony with modernity, science and reason.

What I most fear now is that within a century or so there may not be any human future at all.