6 Quotes & Sayings By Susan Neiman

Susan Neiman, PhD, is Professor of Literature and Communication and Director of the Institute for Advanced Visual Studies at the University of Virginia. Her books include: A Great Work of Public Art: What Happened to the Statue of Liberty?, A Second Life: Reflections on Living, Dying, and Living Well with a Life-Threatening Illness, The Warhol Series: Original Photographs from the Archives of Andy Warhol with Mitch O'Connell (Writers & Readers Publishing), The Portrait in America: A Cultural History (Harvard University Press), and The Enigma of the Print: Albrecht Dürer in American Culture (Duke University Press).

As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited...
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As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance. Susan Neiman
One great function of the arts is to keep ideals...
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One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them. Susan Neiman
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In 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 Neiman
You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs...
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You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms. Susan Neiman
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Philosophy's greatest task is to enlarge our sense of possibility. Susan Neiman