Susan Neiman famous quotes
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As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance.
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Whatever else you may need to get clarity, you must start with open eyes.
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One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.
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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.
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You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms.
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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.)
-- Susan Neiman
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If a musician wants to blossom into a full-fledged person, it's not enough if he knows only classical music; nor it is enough if he's well-versed only in raagas and techniques. Instead, he should be a knowledgeable person interested in life and philosophy. In his personal life there should be, atleast in some corner of his heart, a tinge of lingering sorrow.
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The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.
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As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.
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A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective.
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Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.
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My idea of the perfect bottom would be nice, bubbly, curvy, firm, maybe a little bit bouncy.
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How long does getting thin take?
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Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!†said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.
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The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'
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A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.
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