“One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.”
“One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.”
Susan Neiman
“Philosophy's greatest task is to enlarge our sense of possibility.”
Susan Neiman“You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms.”
Susan Neiman, Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists“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, Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists“One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.”
Susan Neiman, Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists“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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