Susan Neiman
As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance.Collection: Philosophy
In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato's belief that truth and beauty and goodness are connected; that truth and beauty, disseminated widely, will sooner or later lead to goodness. (While we're making at effort at truth and goodness, beauty reminds us what we're hold out for.)Collection: Plato
You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms.Collection: People
Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead to one guillotine or another.Collection: Self
Whatever else you may need to get clarity, you must start with open eyes.Collection: Eye
One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.Collection: Art