Quotes from Robert B. Brandom

The decision as to whether to risk one's actual life or to surrender the ideal self-conception is a decision about who one is.(from The structure of desire and recognition)

To him who looks on the world reductively, the world looks reductively back.

On the traditional, heroic conception it is the normative statuses that matter, not the agent's attitudes. Parricide and incest ought not be. One should not act so as to incur the normative status of father killer and mother fucker.

Cognitively, grasp of just one concept is the sound of one hand clapping.