Jerold Goldstein Quotes

#1. What you do for yourself is fleeting and dies with you. What you do for others has unending benefit and is eternal. #Quote by Jerold Panas

#2. Reggie made him feel like he was nine years old and out for dinner with his family at the Ponderosa Steak House and he had run into his French teacher and his mother invited her to dine with him.
Reggie made him feel like he was sitting in a public bathroom stall and someone had come into the bathroom and began singing a song about what a stinky bastard he was while he was in there sweating it out.
Reggie made him feel like someone had taken the red Tonka fire engine he had always wanted and painfully corkscrewed it down the front of his jeans.
Reggie made him feel like the ice cream man had just rolled by and all his dead grandparents were mooning him out the truck window. #Quote by Jonathan Goldstein

#3. I think one reason is that philosophers are more insecure to speak accessibly because non-philosophers are skeptical that philosophers have any special expertise. After all, all people - not just philosophers - have attitudes and points of view on various philosophical questions, and they rather resent being told that there are professionals who can think about these things better. #Quote by Rebecca Goldstein

#4. It's one of the hardest things to translate anything that's not standard. #Quote by Ann Goldstein

#5. If you could jerk off to something else, like a hamburger, could you imagine the delight in being alive? #Quote by Jonathan Goldstein

#6. In 1850, four-fifths of New York's eleven thousand teachers were women, yet two-thirds of the state's $800,000 in teacher salaries was paid to men. It was not unusual for male teachers to earn twice as much as their female coworkers. #Quote by Dana Goldstein

#7. We all know people who become strongly identified with, and attached to, their intelligence. It can become a big ego trap, harmful to oneself or others. Intelligence can also be a great blessing, providing invaluable clarity. #Quote by Joseph Goldstein

#8. I think that physical actions are always hard to describe, to translate. #Quote by Ann Goldstein

#9. A healthy self and an empty self are not contradictory; it just appears so because we use the same language to describe two different things. The whole path of meditation is about understanding that the self as an unchanging entity is a fiction, an illusory mental construct. #Quote by Joseph Goldstein

#10. When he heard his father call out for Abel and he saw his borther go forth, it made him feel like he was nothing. He couldn't even say that he felt like Cain anymore. One could not feel like Cain because it had no flavor. Cain was the absence of flavor. Cain was like saliva or a Wednesday. #Quote by Jonathan Goldstein

#11. Everybody have equal rights to a life of full flourishing. Philosophy slowly, slowly has given us arguments saying, look, you already committed to your own life flourishing, and you're being inconsistent if you don't expand it. So philosophy often works in trying to show us that there's an inner incoherence in our points of view. We're all committed to one thing when it comes to us and our own kind, but we're not willing to expand it and we're guilty of inconsistency. #Quote by Rebecca Goldstein

#12. In short, teachers are more, not less, likely than many other workers to get fired. #Quote by Dana Goldstein

#13. My mantra, and the key to all my success is simple: relationships over results, always. #Quote by Gary W. Goldstein

#14. The true success is the person who invented himself. #Quote by Al Goldstein

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

#16. Who are these evil ones? In 1984, the evil one was called Goldstein. Orwell was writing a grim parody. But these people running the United States mean what they say. If I were a teacher, I would recommend that all my students very hurriedly read most of Orwell's books, especially 1984 and Animal Farm, because then they'd begin to understand the world we live in. #Quote by John Pilger

#17. The mistake of all the religions is to look outside the world for explanations of the world, rather than rethinking the world itself, so that it offers up its own explanations for itself. The world itself must be self-explanatory. #Quote by Rebecca Goldstein

#18. During the 1970s and the 1980s, economic realities became increasingly central to international relations. Thus, the sub-field of international political economy (IPE) grew and became a major part of international relations. To quote Goldstein again, 'Scholars of IPE study trade relations and financial relations among nations and try to understand how nations have separated politically to create and maintain institutions that regulate the flow of international economic and financial institutions. #Quote by V N Khanna

#19. One evangelical scientist who had felt his doubts falling away from him when he was hiking in the mountains and came upon a frozen waterfall - in fact a trinity of a frozen waterfall, with three parts to it. At that moment, I felt my resistance leave me. And it was a great sense of relief. #Quote by Rebecca Goldstein

#20. Richard Nixon had made a fatal error in ignoring the politico-meteorological dimension when he announced the expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia on April 30, 1970. The invasion of Laos, on the other hand, happened in February 1971, and the campuses were quiet. Who wants to stage a walkout in February? #Quote by Rebecca Goldstein

#21. Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic. #Quote by Al Goldstein

#22. The religious feeling engendered by experiencing the logical comprehensibility of profound interrelations is of a somewhat different sort from the feeling that one usually calls religious. It is more a feeling of awe at the scheme that is manifest in the material universe. It does not lead us to take the step of fashioning a god-like being in our own image - a personage who makes demands of us and who takes an interest in us as individuals. There is in this neither a will nor a goal, nor a must, but only sheer being. #Quote by Rebecca Goldstein

#23. Men are more salary-sensitive when they're choosing a job. #Quote by Dana Goldstein

#24. Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence. #Quote by Kurt Goldstein

#25. I like that there are so many different ways of looking at the world and I like all of the particular narratives. In any case we will never all see the same way on religious issues. It's the way liberals and conservatives will never see the same way on individuals. When we're dealing with questions that can't be definitively answered by science that's where you're sort of your orientation swells in to fill up the gaps and so we're never always going to agree. #Quote by Rebecca Goldstein

#26. So dogma, doctrine, unexamined assumptions, that's what it is to be sharing that, the hippies shadow, no way of grounding it to reality. It's where we're just cut off from reality unless we can argue, we can substantiate, we can justify, we can convince each other. #Quote by Rebecca Goldstein

#27. The only reason that Jews are in pornography is that we think that Christ sucks. Catholicism sucks. #Quote by Al Goldstein

#28. I felt like a young Tony Montana having come to America, except the only person I wanted to kill was myself. #Quote by Jonathan Goldstein

#29. I've long subscribed to the notion that technology is advancing much faster than our ability to understand its implications. #Quote by Ken Goldstein

#30. As you get older you strip away the things you don't have time for, and then you are left with only the things you have time for. Your life gets skinnier and skinnier until you wonder why you go on. You go on because there are things that must get done. You become no longer a person so much as a place, an unfunny place where things come to get done. #Quote by Jonathan Goldstein

#31. When you didn't force yourself to think in formal reconstructions, when you didn't catch these moments of ravishments under the lens of premises and conclusions, when you didn't impale them and label them, like so many splayed butterflies, bleeding the transcendental glow right out of them, then ... what? #Quote by Rebecca Goldstein

#32. Philosophers feel a little more cautious about letting down their technical guard lest the general public doesn't recognize their special credentials. It's the fact that philosophy is of general interest that, paradoxically, keeps philosophers from wanting to speak in a way that's accessible to the general public. #Quote by Rebecca Goldstein

#33. What's more, veteran teachers who work long-term in high-poverty schools with low test scores are actually more effective at raising student achievement than is the rotating cast of inexperienced teachers who try these jobs out but flee after one to three years. #Quote by Dana Goldstein

#34. In fact, the answers that religion, as we have come to know it, provides to the question of human worth have played so dominant a role in the preceding centuries that believers often cannot conceive how non-believers can muster sufficient commitment to their own lives to get out of bed each morning, let alone the ethical wherewithal to regard others as deserving of moral regard. Once one "comes out" as an atheist, these are the inquisitions to which one is often subjected. #Quote by Rebecca Goldstein

#35. Plato's concern is not just an intellectual issue, but it is knitted with emotional life as well. #Quote by Rebecca Goldstein

#36. Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute. #Quote by Rebecca Goldstein

#37. (I)n order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it. (p. 158) #Quote by Rebecca Goldstein

#38. When you see that 76 percent of teachers are female, I think you have to acknowledge that there's a cultural bias, and it does date back to this nineteenth century idea that teaching is a form of mothering. #Quote by Dana Goldstein

#39. Real talent harnesses what it has and unlocks what it doesn't. There is natural ability, there is the discipline that develops natural ability, there is the unending study of one's craft, and there is the exponential lifting of performance by the selfless combination of efforts. #Quote by Ken Goldstein

#40. I have a Greek-American friend who named her daughter "Nike" and is often asked why she chose to name her offspring after a sneaker. #Quote by Rebecca Goldstein

#41. When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York, in Amsterdam and L.A., when your wife is dying and your son abandons you, you don't feel very good. #Quote by Al Goldstein

#42. I've got access to your mysterious body but not your mysterious soul. Souls seem to me the loneliest possibility of all. #Quote by Rebecca Goldstein

#43. Hatred never ceases by hatred; it only ceases by love. #Quote by Joseph Goldstein