Tyler Windham

“...in its practical purpose the footpath of freedom is the only one on which it is possible to make use of reason in our conduct. Hence it is as impossible for the subtlest philosophy as for the commonest reasoning to argue freedom away.”
― Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

“[It] is nevertheless better than the theological concept, of deriving morality from a divine, all-perfect will, not merely because we do not intuit this perfection, but can derive it solely from our concepts, of which morality is the foremost one, but because if we do not do this (which, if we did, would be a crude circle in explanation), the concept of his will that is left over to us, the attributes of the desire for glory and domination, bound up with frightful representations of power and vengeance, would have to make a foundation for a system of morals that is directly opposed to morality.”
― Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

“History is like therapy for the present, it makes it talk about its parents.”
― Maya Jasanoff, The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World

“Thus he has two standpoints from which he can consider himself...: first, as belonging to the world of sense, under the laws of nature (heteronomy), and, second, as belonging to the intelligible world under laws which, independent of nature, are not empirical but founded only on reason.”
― Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals