One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.

- Susan Neiman

As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance.

- Susan Neiman

You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms.

- Susan Neiman

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, dis…

- Susan Neiman

Whatever else you may need to get clarity, you must start with open eyes.

- Susan Neiman

Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lea…

- Susan Neiman