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.
One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them. - Susan Neiman
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
As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance.
You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms. - Susan Neiman
You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms.
Whatever else you may need to get clarity, you must start with open eyes. - Susan Neiman
Whatever else you may need to get clarity, you must start with open eyes.
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
Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lea…
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
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…
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