Quote by Susan Neiman

“Sometimes realism seems to mean no more than the advice to plan ahead before you start a war. Sometimes realism means the recognition that…

— Susan Neiman

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

— Susan Neiman

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

— Susan Neiman

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,…

— Susan Neiman

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

— Susan Neiman

“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…

— Susan Neiman

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

— Susan Neiman

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

— Susan Neiman

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

— Susan Neiman

“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…

— Susan Neiman

“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…

— Susan Neiman

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

— Susan Neiman