Philosophy Quote by Susan Neiman — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

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

“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, disseminated widely, will sooner or later lead to goodness. (While we're making at effort at truth and goodness, beauty reminds us what we're hold out for.)”

“It is not enough to show how clever we are by showing how obscure everything is".”

“in this case, a mother, noted for her beauty, might be reduced to a purple shadow... (Tansley to Lily on her painting of the house & grounds)”

“I wonder how often I occupy spaces that were recently inhabited by dead people. I wonder who will occupy the spaces I've inhabited, after I'm dead.”

“[T]he price you've paid is not the price of becoming human. It's not even the price of having the things you just mentioned. It's the price of enacting a story that casts mankind as the enemy of the world.”

“Standing in the middle between the idea of an event and the actual event, a strange kind of physical reality just in the middle between possibility and reality.”

“We feel most alive when we are closest to death.”