If you don't exert yourself, or if your exertions don't amount to much of anything, then you might as well not have… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Almost everybody thinks about philosophy, even if they don't realize it's philosophy and even if they have no sense of the difficulty… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
If we don't understand our tools, then there is a danger we will become the tool of our tools. We think of… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
If we look at our attitudes consistently and work out the logical implications we're on the road to moral progress, moral understanding. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
When the first people started to argue against slavery, for example, this was a new idea. If you crowd-source, you'd never come… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Everyone loves a hero. What we differ on is the question of who the heroes are, because we differ over what matters.… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Does God have a reason for wanting us to be charitable, to take care of those who can't take care of themselves?… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
I don't only act out of my character; my character reacts to my actions. Each time I why, even if I'm not… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Everybody have equal rights to a life of full flourishing. Philosophy slowly, slowly has given us arguments saying, look, you already committed… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
If there is such a thing as philosophical progress, then why - unlike scientific progress - is it so invisible? Philosophical progress… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
What is love? When you love somebody then I mean we all want good things to happen to ourselves and keep the… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Youth is not an essential, but rather an accidental property. Nobody is in essence young. One either ceases to be or ceases to be… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
When you ask why did some particular question occur to a scientist or philosopher for the first time, or why did this particular approach… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Those who share my heroes are, in the deepest sense, of my own kind. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“one evangelical scientist who had felt his doubts falling away from him when he was hiking in the mountains and came upon a frozen… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Because of the failure of religion to offer satisfying answers to an increasing number of people, it's time for philosophy to address forcefully these… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
If we look at our attitudes consistently and work out the logical implications we're on the road to moral progress, moral understanding. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
We may not need God to tell us where the world came from, but we need God to be able to live moral lives… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
In order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Philosophical progress changes what we take to be "intuitively" obvious, and this change covers up the tracks of the laborious arguments that preceded the… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
What one tries to force into a child against its own nature will never come to good. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
![“Everyone loves a hero. What we differ on is the question of who the heroes are, because we differ over what matters. And who matters is a function of what matters. [If] what matters is intelligence, the people who matter are the intelligent, and the people who matter the most, the heroes, are the…” quote by Rebecca Goldstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/815/rebecca-goldstein-4026_function_everyone-loves-a-hero-what-we-differ-on_1301262.jpg)
