{"author":"Rebecca Goldstein","author_id":"Rebecca+Goldstein","total_quotes":36,"quotes":[{"text":"Everybody makes excuses for themselves they wouldn't be prepared to make for other people.","author":"Rebecca Goldstein","tags":["criticism","legalism","rationalization"],"id":6673,"author_id":"Rebecca+Goldstein"},{"text":"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 Google's customers, but really we're its products.","author":"Rebecca Goldstein","tags":["perspective","technology"],"id":15848,"author_id":"Rebecca+Goldstein"},{"text":"When we call a philosopher distinguished, we are not saying that she is worthy and not saying that she is recognized, but we are saying that she occupies the intersection of both – that she is recognized and worthy; even that she is recognized because she's worthy. In the case of arate, the direction of the 'because' can seem a little vaguer, so that it can sometimes seem almost as if someone is regarded as worthy because they are recognized.","author":"Rebecca Goldstein","tags":["fame","recognition","regard"],"id":24172,"author_id":"Rebecca+Goldstein"},{"text":"That's one of the compensations for being mediocre. One doesn't have to worry about becoming mediocre.","author":"Rebecca Goldstein","tags":["perspective"],"id":45035,"author_id":"Rebecca+Goldstein"},{"text":"How can those who possess all knowledge, which must include knowledge of life that is worth living, be interested in using knowledge only for the insignificant aim of making money?","author":"Rebecca Goldstein","tags":["materialism","meaning-of-life"],"id":78572,"author_id":"Rebecca+Goldstein"},{"text":"How irrelevant the belief in God can be to religious experience—so irrelevant that the emotional structure of religious experiences can be transplanted to completely godless contexts with little of the impact lost—and when he had also, almost as an afterthought, included as an appendix thirty-six arguments for the existence of God, with rebuttals, his claim being that the most thorough demolition of these arguments would make little difference to the felt qualities of religious experience,.","author":"Rebecca Goldstein","tags":["kindlehighlight"],"id":85729,"author_id":"Rebecca+Goldstein"},{"text":"If there is such a thing as philosophical progress, then why – unlike scientific progress – is it so invisible? Philosophical progress is invisible because it is incorporated into our points of view. What was torturously secured by complex argument comes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance.","author":"Rebecca Goldstein","tags":["human-condition","perspective"],"id":91972,"author_id":"Rebecca+Goldstein"},{"text":"It baffled me how people could resist math's gorgeousness, but people did, and people do. The fine of its purity drives them away, the purity of the fine, unmixed with the heaviness of unnecessitated being.","author":"Rebecca Goldstein","tags":["math","physics","purity"],"id":128779,"author_id":"Rebecca+Goldstein"},{"text":"He hadn’t altogether gotten it himself until this moment of seeing straight through to the soul of her.","author":"Rebecca Goldstein","tags":["kindlehighlight"],"id":150921,"author_id":"Rebecca+Goldstein"},{"text":"For the ancient Greeks, who lacked our social media, the only way to achieve mass duplication of the details of one's life in the apprehension of others was to do something wondrously worth the telling. Our wondrous technologies might just save us all the personal bother. Kleos is a tweak away.","author":"Rebecca Goldstein","tags":["fame","popularity","reputation","social-media"],"id":151979,"author_id":"Rebecca+Goldstein"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":36,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}