One of the interesting things about the ancient Greeks is that they really didn't have our conception of individual rights. They didn't… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
I was trained as a philosopher never to put philosophers and their ideas into historical contexts, since historical context has nothing to… — 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
The will to matter is at least as important as the will to believe. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
To matter ... Is there any human will deeper than that? ... We don't want to live when we become convinced that… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
What is play and delightful one kind of child is coercion and torture for another, and will not take no matter how… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
To matter, to mind. ... What we mind is in our power, but whether we matter may not be - and there's… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Our society is falling back increasingly on rampant consumerism and self-promoting social media as a way for people to feel that their… — 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
