Al Goldstein Quotes

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?

The will to matter is at least as important as the will to believe.

That's one of the compensations for being mediocre. One doesn't have to worry about becoming mediocre.

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.

I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.

Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it - it can be salvaged.

Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal

The mass market eventually assimilates that which is innovative or revolutionary.

It's one of the hardest things to translate anything that's not standard.

I have very strict rules in my head that seem to me to be the way things should sound.

I think that physical actions are always hard to describe, to translate.

One naturally identifies to some extent with an "I" female narrator going through something that you recognize whether you've gone through it or not.

That's a huge subject - a writer refusing to do publicity but writing about publicity.

To have the translator be a figure in the book's presentation seems like a big thing, especially for a book that's really popular.

I tend to be kind of literal about translation. I think it's important to present the writer as closely as possible.

Coming to the civil rights movement in the twentieth century, we begin to have this idea that's still with us today, which is that the main purpose of public education is closing achievement gaps.

There are a lot of polls that show that actually Americans have a pretty high opinion of teachers, that Americans think teachers are just about as prestigious as doctors.

I believe everyone in the education sector should be looking at evidence, reassessing, making tweaks to figure out what works, I think it's a positive model.

Teaching is been seen as kind of a moral calling and not as an intellectual job.

Just in general, when we look at our school system, there is so much overlap with our criminal justice system in terms of our low-income youth.

I always make the point that teachers are people too, and that they don't just want to be in front of kids all day and have children be their only feedback loop.

I don't think school reform should be motivated by missionary zeal. I think it should be motivated by evidence of what works.

There's definitely a tension between the way teaching is talked about and understood at the political level and how everyday average Americans think about teachers.

Men are more salary-sensitive when they're choosing a job.

Younger teachers are definitely more likely to have worked at charter schools as opposed to have just heard of them. Charter schools explicitly look, often, to hire younger people.

The question is rarely asked, "Why is it that so few other Americans have these protections?" The question is more often asked, "Why do teachers have it so easy?"

I think a lot of people truly underestimate how much planning is involved in a teacher's work cycle.

The idea that because the school day is shorter or the school year is shorter than the sort of white collar workday or work year, that does not actually capture how teachers spend their time.

Just to deliver one high-quality 45 minute lesson requires many hours of planning in advance.

I can live my legacy or just have led a busy life.

You should impact the greatest amount of people that you can in your life.

Fashion's recognized as a business now, but it was something that was almost underground when I started.

I always say that everyone has to start by being true to themselves.

Perspective should be learned - and then forgotten. The residue - a sensitivity to perspective - helps perception, varying with each individual and determined by his responsive needs.

The local-tone is the intrinsic value of a thing - excluding any effects of light. The local-tone of a common pearl is very nearly white; that of a lump of coal, nearly black.

Value, whether the result of massed lines, broad strokes, or washes, is the necessary and only tool for modelling form with light.

Value gives the artist the means of showing subtle changes in a form's surface-state, and it helps clarify the relative distance between forms.

Philosophical thinking that doesn't do violence to one's settled mind is no philosophical thinking at all.

I've got access to your mysterious body but not your mysterious soul. Souls seem to me the loneliest possibility of all.

I don't think I can write the story of my life, but I can write the story of my hair.

The philosophers talk across the centuries exclusively to one another, hermetically sealed from any influences derived from non-philosophical discourse.

Plato conceived of philosophy as necessarily gregarious rather than solitary. The exposure of presumptions is best done in company, the more argumentative the better.

Youth is not an essential, but rather an accidental property. Nobody is in essence young. One either ceases to be or ceases to be young.

Mother' is not an identity one can just try on for size.

In fact, it’s the very impersonality of impersonal knowledge that renders such knowledge the most ethically potent of all.

From the beginning philosophy sought for The order behind the disorder Thales sipped cheap wine And in this did divine: "Why it's nothing at all but pure water!"

What 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.

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

Almost everybody thinks about philosophy, even if they don't realize it's philosophy and even if they have no sense of the difficulty of the problems, the array of possible answers.

Because of the failure of religion to offer satisfying answers to an increasing number of people, it's time for philosophy to address forcefully these questions that everybody is wondering about.