Art Quote by rebecca goldstein

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

Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.

— Rebecca Goldstein

“Freedom for me is a pain in the Buridan's ass.”

— Rebecca Goldstein

Those who share my heroes are, in the deepest sense, of my own kind.

— Rebecca Goldstein

“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

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

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

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

In order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it.

— Rebecca Goldstein

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

What one tries to force into a child against its own nature will never come to good.

— Rebecca Goldstein