Quotes by Susan Neiman

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

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 Platos belief that truth and beauty and goodness are connected; that truth and beauty, disseminated widely, will sooner or later lead to goodness. (While were making at effort at truth and goodness, beauty reminds us what were hold out for.)

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

Philosophys greatest task is to enlarge our sense of possibility.