Alive Quote by Susan Neiman

“One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.” quote by Susan Neiman — Download Open image

“One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.”

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“Sometimes realism seems to mean no more than the advice to plan ahead before you start a war. Sometimes realism means the recognition that the world cannot be divided as neatly into good and evil as George W. Bush's more notorious speeches would suggest. Sometimes realism means nothing more than cynical or even bad, which leaves ultrarealist to mean simply…

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“Ordinary goodness is fraught with veins of vanity and self-interest and above all with pleasure--because goodness makes you feel more alive.”

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“The dangers of sophistry and scholasticism are present in the possibility of philosophy itself.”

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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,…

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“The claim that there is no alternative but perdition to a worldview that shows how everything fits together and makes perfect sense is a…

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“When education is overwhelmed by hypermedia, travel facile or ruinous, and work a blurred mixture of more dependence and less meaning, it’s harder than ever to use those experiences to grow. But growing up, I have argued, has been dogged by dilemma ever since it was a real option. As Enlightenment philosophers knew, it’s a process that is as socially…

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“Vitality is not the denial of mortality, but the grown-up way of facing it.”

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“Negotiating small differences is part of being a grownup; no one can tell you in advance where to put your foot down.”

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“how can human beings behave in ways that so thoroughly violate both reasonable and rational norms?”

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“It’s a matter of logical structure: what is, just is, and any claim about what ought to be is a claim about our own…

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“Kitsch is much more than a question of style; it's a preference for consolation over truth. Disney's version of reality is not just cleaned…

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“What drives pure reason to efforts that seem to have neither end nor result?”

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I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars, the houses - that's not the American dream. That's the booby prize, in the end. Those are the booby prizes. And if you fall for them - if, when you achieve them, you believe that this…

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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.

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I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think.

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We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that…

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I can't say that there are 'things' that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive.

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We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

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If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.

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Peace is an ongoing process. It begins with the first step and it does not end. We, all of us alive today, are the…

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I think adoption becomes complicated whenever the biological parents are alive.

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

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I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly settle in my mind is, that the end will absolutely come. I hold her hand in mine, I hold her heart in mine, I see her love for me, alive in all its strength. I cannot…

Charles Dickens