80 Quotes by Rebecca Goldstein

Less money spent on billboards that just make us feel good about ourselves and more on soup kitchens and organized visits to the sick and dying.

Answers? Forget answers. The spectacle is all in the questions.

Philosophy addresses, in a systematic and progress-making way, questions of deep concern to everyone.

If you don’t exert yourself, or if your exertions don’t amount to much of anything, then you might as well not have bothered to have shown up for your existence at all.

A person whom one has loved seems altogether too significant a thing to simply vanish altogether from the world. A person whom one loves is a world, just as one knows oneself to be a world.

The opposite of a plain truth, Neils Bohr liked to repeat, is a plain falsehood. But the opposite of a deep truth is another deep truth.

It’s something that’s very often said that philosophy, as opposed to science, never makes any progress.

I’ve got access to your mysterious body but not your mysterious soul. Souls seem to me the loneliest possibility of all.

In fact, it’s the very impersonality of impersonal knowledge that renders such knowledge the most ethically potent of all.