I don't think I can write the story of my life, but I can write the story of my hair. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Philosophical thinking that doesn't do violence to one's settled mind is no philosophical thinking at all. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
I was raised in an Orthodox Jewish household and I wouldn't say so much it's informed my views, but it's informed my… — 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
I think the humanities always have to take science, our great knowledge that we get from science, into account, but then try… — 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
Math . . . music .. . starry nights . . . These are secular ways of achieving transcendence, of feeling lifted… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
God doesn't help. I think that's a knockdown argument. I think that it really shows that whatever moral knowledge we have and… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
I would say to anybody who thinks that all the problems in philosophy can be translated into empirically verifiable answers - whether… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Our humanist community should be thinking more about demonstrating the fundamental truth that goodness requires neither God nor the belief in God… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
I think one reason is that philosophers are more insecure to speak accessibly because non-philosophers are skeptical that philosophers have any special… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
I'm a Spinozist. I believe in reason. I think all the progress that we've made making this a better world have been… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
We become more worthy the more we bend our minds to the impersonal. We become better as we take in the universe,… — 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
