Quotes from Rebecca Goldstein

Having your husband at a party is like adding anchovies to a salad. I love anchovies, but you can't taste anything else.

The sum and substance of education is the right training that effectually leads the soul of the child at play on to the love of the calling in its adult life.

Conclusions that philosophers first establish by way of torturous reasoning have a way, over time, of leaking into shared knowledge.

What was tortuously secured by complex argument becomes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance. We don't see it, because we see with it.

In order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it.

If we look at our attitudes consistently and work out the logical implications we're on the road to moral progress, moral understanding.