Quotes by Rebecca Goldstein, Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

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(As Plato:) There is nothing superstitious about forcing bad consequences for the hubris of paternalistic utopianism. Hu — Rebecca Goldstein, Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
Thinking is the soul speaking to itself. — Rebecca Goldstein, Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
Children, who have so much to learn in so short a time, had involved the tendency to trust adults to instruct them in th — Rebecca Goldstein, Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
As Plato: What is play and delightful one kind of child is coercion and torture for another, and will not take no matter — Rebecca Goldstein, Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
Participation in the collective life of the polis both restrains the extraordinary individual and enlarges the ordinary — Rebecca Goldstein, Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
The good polis is made by the good person, his moral character intact, and the good polis, in turn, helps turn out good — Rebecca Goldstein, Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
I don't only act out of my character; my character reacts to my actions. Each time I why, even if I'm not caught, I beco — Rebecca Goldstein, Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
Quite often we are led to aporia, an impasse, unable to proceed a step further. Socrates is almost always there, but eve — Rebecca Goldstein, Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
If we don't understand our tools, then there is a danger we will become the tool of our tools. We think of ourselves as — Rebecca Goldstein, Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
I have a Greek-American friend who named her daughter "Nike" and is often asked why she chose to name her offspring afte — Rebecca Goldstein, Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
If there is such a thing as philosophical progress, then why – unlike scientific progress – is it so invisible? Philosop — Rebecca Goldstein, Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die. — Rebecca Goldstein, Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
What is it precisely, that they are doing when they are doing science. Are they refining their instruments for observati — Rebecca Goldstein, Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
And what is it, according to Plato, that philosophy is supposed to do? Nothing less than to render violence to our sense — Rebecca Goldstein, Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontra — Rebecca Goldstein, Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
As Plato: We become more worthy the more we bend our minds to the impersonal. We become better as we take in the univers — Rebecca Goldstein, Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: "Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves — Rebecca Goldstein, Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
Everybody makes excuses for themselves they wouldn't be prepared to make for other people. — Rebecca Goldstein, Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
How can those who possess all knowledge, which must include knowledge of life that is worth living, be interested in usi — Rebecca Goldstein, Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
The will to matter is at least as important as the will to believe. — Rebecca Goldstein, Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away