Susan Neiman Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

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

#Philosophy Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Long Quotes
“Whatever else you may need to get clarity, you must start with open eyes.”
-- Susan Neiman

#Eye Quotes #May Quotes #Needs Quotes
“One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.”
-- Susan Neiman

#Art Quotes #Culture Quotes #Alive Quotes
“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.”
-- Susan Neiman

#Self Quotes #Order Quotes #Justice Quotes
“You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms.”
-- Susan Neiman

#People Quotes #May Quotes #Arms Quotes
“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

#Plato Quotes #Effort Quotes #Enlightenment Quotes

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