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

I don't think Kant's theory looks bad to people except insofar as they have misunderstood it (for instance, as heartless and ironheaded, or as committed to an absurd metaphysical conception of freedom that violates Kant's own philosophy).

Leaders of nations, and people whose wealth or fame gives them power over the lives of others quite often do more harm than good.

People who enjoy the privileges of success must use these privileges to benefit those who do not have them. These privileges constitute a deep hole they need to climb out of if they are to prevent its being the case that the world would have been better off if they had never been born.

Teaching and writing about philosophy is about the only thing I've ever been really good at.

Sometimes when a philosopher's views are widely rejected by the world, the fault is not with the philosopher but with the world.

Marx is thought of as an implacable foe of capitalism. But go back and read the first section of the Communist Manifesto. Notice how it contains a paean of praise for the way capitalism and the bourgeoisie have both enriched the human powers of production and also enabled us to see with clear vision the nature of human society and human history.