Quotes by : Rebecca Goldstein

Quite often we are led to aporia, an impasse, unable to proceed a step further. Socrates is almost always....

(As Plato:) There is nothing superstitious about forcing bad consequences for the hubris of paternalistic....

This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge....

Participation in the collective life of the polis both restrains the extraordinary individual and enlarges....

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

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

It’s a tiresome proposition, having to take up the work of the Enlightenment all over again, but it’s....

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

It baffled me how people could resist math's gorgeousness, but people did, and people do. The fine of....

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