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Rebecca Goldstein quotes: Plato's concern is not just an intellectual issue, but it is knitted with emotional life as well.

Plato's concern is not just an intellectual issue, but it is knitted with emotional life as well.

Rebecca Goldstein quotes: I've got access to your mysterious body but not your mysterious soul. Souls seem to me the loneliest possibility of all.

I've got access to your mysterious body but not your mysterious soul. Souls seem to me the loneliest possibility of all.

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

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

Rebecca Goldstein quotes: Reality is infinite and we are finite and so there is a necessary mismatch between our knowledge of the world and the world itself.

Reality is infinite and we are finite and so there is a necessary mismatch between our knowledge of the world and the world itself.

Rebecca Goldstein quotes: It's a tiresome proposition, having to take up the work of the Enlightenment all over again, but it's happened on your watch.

It's a tiresome proposition, having to take up the work of the Enlightenment all over again, but it's happened on your watch.

Rebecca Goldstein quotes: Genius in a person was like weed that takes over the entire garden, that won't allow anything else to grow. (p. 251)

Genius in a person was like weed that takes over the entire garden, that won't allow anything else to grow. (p. 251)

Rebecca Goldstein quotes: Answers? Forget answers. The spectacle is all in the questions.

Answers? Forget answers. The spectacle is all in the questions.

Rebecca Goldstein quotes: That's one of the compensations for being mediocre. One doesn't have to worry about becoming mediocre.

That's one of the compensations for being mediocre. One doesn't have to worry about becoming mediocre.

Rebecca Goldstein quotes: Plato worries our thinking might become too reflexive and comfortable with itself.

Plato worries our thinking might become too reflexive and comfortable with itself.

Rebecca Goldstein quotes: And by the way, Sherlock Holmes is Jewish. He changed his name. I'm surprised you nerver guessed it. (p. 248)

And by the way, Sherlock Holmes is Jewish. He changed his name. I'm surprised you nerver guessed it. (p. 248)

Rebecca Goldstein quotes: Our failures in charity are chained to a narrowed vision of the world that makes too much of the differences between us, and this is our enslavement.

Our failures in charity are chained to a narrowed vision of the world that makes too much of the differences between us, and this is our enslavement.

Rebecca Goldstein quotes: I have a Greek-American friend who named her daughter "Nike" and is often asked why she chose to name her offspring after a sneaker.

I have a Greek-American friend who named her daughter "Nike" and is often asked why she chose to name her offspring after a sneaker.

Rebecca Goldstein quotes: The opposite of a plain truth, Neils Bohr liked to repeat, is a plain falsehood. But the opposite of a deep truth is another deep truth.

The opposite of a plain truth, Neils Bohr liked to repeat, is a plain falsehood. But the opposite of a deep truth is another deep truth.

Rebecca Goldstein quotes: Rational self-interest is always what morality boils down to.

Rational self-interest is always what morality boils down to.

Rebecca Goldstein quotes: We must believe that he will come but never believe that he is come. There is no Messiah but an uncome Messiah.

We must believe that he will come but never believe that he is come. There is no Messiah but an uncome Messiah.

Rebecca Goldstein quotes: It was intolerable what lay hidden within another, intolerable tat you could not divide one person into another with no remainder.

It was intolerable what lay hidden within another, intolerable tat you could not divide one person into another with no remainder.

Rebecca Goldstein quotes: Philosophical thinking that doesn't do violence to one's settled mind is no philosophical thinking at all.

Philosophical thinking that doesn't do violence to one's settled mind is no philosophical thinking at all.

Rebecca Goldstein quotes: In fact, it's the very impersonality of impersonal knowledge that renders such knowledge the most ethically potent of all.

In fact, it's the very impersonality of impersonal knowledge that renders such knowledge the most ethically potent of all.

Rebecca Goldstein quotes: He hadn't altogether gotten it himself until this moment of seeing straight through to the soul of her.

He hadn't altogether gotten it himself until this moment of seeing straight through to the soul of her.

Rebecca Goldstein quotes: We need science. We need empirical evidence. We can't just use mathematical reasoning to deduce the nature of the world.

We need science. We need empirical evidence. We can't just use mathematical reasoning to deduce the nature of the world.

Rebecca Goldstein quotes: For Jascha, artistic creation was the most private activity in the world: the soul's sacred and solitary communion with itself. (p. 244)

For Jascha, artistic creation was the most private activity in the world: the soul's sacred and solitary communion with itself. (p. 244)

Rebecca Goldstein quotes: Everybody makes excuses for themselves they wouldn't be prepared to make for other people.

Everybody makes excuses for themselves they wouldn't be prepared to make for other people.

Rebecca Goldstein quotes: leave me. And it was a great sense of relief. The

leave me. And it was a great sense of relief. The

Rebecca Goldstein quotes: Freedom for me is a pain in the Buridan's ass.

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

Rebecca Goldstein quotes: Thinking is the soul speaking to itself.

Thinking is the soul speaking to itself.

Rebecca Goldstein quotes: As Plato: What is play and delightful one kind of child is coercion and torture for another, and will not take no matter how much coercion is applied.

As Plato: What is play and delightful one kind of child is coercion and torture for another, and will not take no matter how much coercion is applied.

Rebecca Goldstein quotes: The only object we truly possess is our own mind. The only pleasure over which we have complete dominion is the progress of our own understanding.

The only object we truly possess is our own mind. The only pleasure over which we have complete dominion is the progress of our own understanding.

Rebecca Goldstein quotes: Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.

Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.

Rebecca Goldstein quotes: If we look at our attitudes consistently and work out the logical implications we're on the road to moral progress, moral understanding.

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

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

Rebecca Goldstein quotes: (I)n order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it. (p. 158)

(I)n order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it. (p. 158)

Rebecca Goldstein quotes: Philosophy addresses, in a systematic and progress-making way, questions of deep concern to everyone.

Philosophy addresses, in a systematic and progress-making way, questions of deep concern to everyone.

Rebecca Goldstein quotes: Youth is not an essential, but rather an accidental property. Nobody is in essence young. One either ceases to be or ceases to be young.

Youth is not an essential, but rather an accidental property. Nobody is in essence young. One either ceases to be or ceases to be young.

Rebecca Goldstein quotes: Since physics is poetry, then poetry is physics, he propounded.

Since physics is poetry, then poetry is physics, he propounded.

Rebecca Goldstein quotes: I am beautiful for a brainy woman, brainy for a beautiful woman, but objectively speaking, neither beautiful nor brainy.

I am beautiful for a brainy woman, brainy for a beautiful woman, but objectively speaking, neither beautiful nor brainy.

Rebecca Goldstein quotes: Having your husband at a party is like adding anchovies to a salad. I love anchovies, but you can't taste anything else.

Having your husband at a party is like adding anchovies to a salad. I love anchovies, but you can't taste anything else.

Rebecca Goldstein quotes: Ven mazel kumt, shtelt im a shtul. When mazel comes, pull up a chair for it. (p. 292)

Ven mazel kumt, shtelt im a shtul. When mazel comes, pull up a chair for it. (p. 292)

Rebecca Goldstein quotes: inside out, with all the Sturm und

inside out, with all the Sturm und

Rebecca Goldstein quotes: The secret of the demagogue is to appear as dumb as his audience so that these people can believe themselves as smart as he is.

The secret of the demagogue is to appear as dumb as his audience so that these people can believe themselves as smart as he is.

Rebecca Goldstein quotes: Mother' is not an identity one can just try on for size ...

Mother' is not an identity one can just try on for size ...

Rebecca Goldstein quotes: There's no reason. Mazel, Maurice. Only mazel. (p. 343)

There's no reason. Mazel, Maurice. Only mazel. (p. 343)

Rebecca Goldstein quotes: Blau suffered from a mild form of messianism, an ailment as common among Jewish males as nearsightedness. (p. 264)

Blau suffered from a mild form of messianism, an ailment as common among Jewish males as nearsightedness. (p. 264)

Rebecca Goldstein quotes: I don't think I can write the story of my life, but I can write the story of my hair.

I don't think I can write the story of my life, but I can write the story of my hair.

Rebecca Goldstein quotes: The will to matter is at least as important as the will to believe.

The will to matter is at least as important as the will to believe.

Rebecca Goldstein quotes: Conclusions that philosophers first establish by way of torturous reasoning have a way, over time, of leaking into shared knowledge.

Conclusions that philosophers first establish by way of torturous reasoning have a way, over time, of leaking into shared knowledge.

Rebecca Goldstein quotes: Less money spent on billboards that just make us feel good about ourselves and more on soup kitchens and organized visits to the sick and dying.

Less money spent on billboards that just make us feel good about ourselves and more on soup kitchens and organized visits to the sick and dying.