Vitality is not the denial of mortality, but the grown-up way of facing it.
Susan NeimanIn 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 NeimanTag: beauty philosophy enlightenment
As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance.
Susan NeimanTag: philosophy idealism
You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms.
Susan NeimanTag: religion rationality superstition
Every time you accept the claim that you can't change human nature or you have to accept the way the world is, you are accepting the foundations of the worldview that grounded the ancien regime.
Susan NeimanOne great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.
Susan NeimanTag: art beauty philosophy idealism
Home is the normal--whatever place you happen to start from and return to without having to answer questions. It's a metaphor that may seem to fit reduced expectations. We no longer seek towers that would reach to the heavens; we've abandoned attempts to prove that we live in a chain of being whose every link bears witness to the glory of God. We merely seek assurance that we find ourselves in a place where we know our way about.
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