Quotes by : Susan Neiman

As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's 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.

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

Philosophy's greatest task is to enlarge our sense of possibility.

In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato's belief that truth and beauty and goodness....