Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: "Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves to reform their polis for the better."
Answers? Forget answers. The spectacle is all in the questions. - Rebecca Goldstein
Answers? Forget answers. The spectacle is all in the questions.
- Rebecca Goldstein
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
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…
The philosophers talk across the centuries exclusively to one another, hermetically sealed from any influences derived from non-philosophical discour… - Rebecca Goldstein
The philosophers talk across the centuries exclusively to one another, hermetically sealed from any influences derived from non-philosophical discour…
Philosophical thinking that doesn't do violence to one's settled mind is no philosophical thinking at all. - Rebecca Goldstein
Philosophical thinking that doesn't do violence to one's settled mind is no philosophical thinking at all.
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
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…
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
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…
The will to matter is at least as important as the will to believe. - Rebecca Goldstein
The will to matter is at least as important as the will to believe.
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
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 -…
Everybody makes excuses for themselves they wouldn't be prepared to make for other people. - Rebecca Goldstein
Everybody makes excuses for themselves they wouldn't be prepared to make for other people.
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