It was while I was studying philosophy that I came to understand. . . that it is no sign of moral or spiritual strength to believe that for which one…

- Rebecca Goldstein

The philosophers talk across the centuries exclusively to one another, hermetically sealed from any influences derived from non-philosophical discour…

- Rebecca Goldstein

Answers? Forget answers. The spectacle is all in the questions.

- Rebecca Goldstein

I'm a Spinozist. I believe in reason. I think all the progress that we've made making this a better world have been because of reason and not religio…

- Rebecca Goldstein

What was tortuously secured by complex argument becomes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance. We don’t see it, because w…

- Rebecca Goldstein

Our society is falling back increasingly on rampant consumerism and self-promoting social media as a way for people to feel that their lives matter -…

- Rebecca Goldstein

Everybody makes excuses for themselves they wouldn't be prepared to make for other people.

- Rebecca Goldstein

The will to matter is at least as important as the will to believe.

- Rebecca Goldstein

Philosophical thinking that doesn't do violence to one's settled mind is no philosophical thinking at all.

- Rebecca Goldstein