Everybody makes excuses for themselves they wouldn't be prepared to make for other people.
Rebecca GoldsteinI don't think I can write the story of my life, but I can write the story of my hair.
Rebecca GoldsteinIn order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it.
Rebecca GoldsteinWhat is play and delightful one kind of child is coercion and torture for another, and will not take no matter how much coercion is applied.
Rebecca GoldsteinGod doesn't help. I think that's a knockdown argument. I think that it really shows that whatever moral knowledge we have and whatever moral progress we make in our knowledge or whatever progress we make in our moral knowledge is not coming really from religion. It's coming from the very hard work really of moral philosophy, of trying to ground our moral reasonings.
Rebecca GoldsteinIt was while I was studying philosophy that I came to understand. . . that it is no sign of moral or spiritual strength to believe that for which one has no evidence, neither a priori evidence as in math, nor a posteriori evidence as in science. . . . It's a violation almost immoral in its transgressiveness to shirk the responsibilities of rationality.
Rebecca Goldstein