Susan Neiman Quotes

• As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance.

  Susan Neiman

  Philosophy, Ideas, Long

  Susan Neiman (2009). “Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists”, p.153, Princeton University Press

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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, 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.)

  Susan Neiman

  Plato, Effort, Enlightenment

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• You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms.

  Susan Neiman

  People, Needs, May

  Susan Neiman (2009). “Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists”, p.132, Random House

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• Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead to one guillotine or another.

  Susan Neiman

  Self, Order, Justice

  Susan Neiman (2009). “Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists”, p.430, Princeton University Press

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• Whatever else you may need to get clarity, you must start with open eyes.

  Susan Neiman

  Eye, Needs, May

  Susan Neiman (2009). “Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists”, p.430, Princeton University Press

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

  Susan Neiman

  Art, Doe, Culture

  Susan Neiman (2009). “Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists”, p.159, Random House

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