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Susan Neiman Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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