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Richard Rorty Quotes

All human relations untouched by love take place in the dark Picture Quote #1

Truth [is] what is better for us to believe Picture Quote #1

Had there been no Plato, the Christians would have had a harder time selling the idea that all God really wanted from us was fraternal love Picture Quote #1

A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change, Picture Quote #1

You read the pragmatists and all you know is: not Descartes, not Kant, not Plato. It’s like aspirin. You can’t use aspirin to give yourself power, you take it to get rid of headaches. In that way, pragmatism is a philosophical therapy. It helps you stop asking the unhelpful questions Picture Quote #1

Every government, left or right, always engages in moral crusades. What else are they supposed to do? Especially when they make war; any war has to be a moral crusade Picture Quote #1

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The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not Picture Quote #1

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends Picture Quote #1

What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren? Picture Quote #1

Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with Picture Quote #1

Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative Picture Quote #1

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way Picture Quote #1

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The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial Picture Quote #1

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves Picture Quote #1

If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got except hope? Picture Quote #1

My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law Picture Quote #1

Truthfulness under oath is, by now, a matter of our civic religion, our relation to our fellow citizens rather than our relation to a nonhuman power Picture Quote #1

At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one’s life fighting social injustice Picture Quote #1

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A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change Picture Quote #1

We are equal inhabitants of a paradise of individuals in which everybody has the right to be understood Picture Quote #1

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing Picture Quote #1

If the body had been easier to understand, nobody would have thought that we had a mind Picture Quote #1

My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of transcendence Picture Quote #1

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that Picture Quote #1

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All human relations untouched by love take place in the dark (Richard Rorty Quotes) Truth [is] what is better for us to believe (Richard Rorty Quotes) Had there been no Plato, the Christians would have had a harder time selling the idea that all God really wanted from us was fraternal love. (Richard Rorty Quotes) A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change, (Richard Rorty Quotes) You read the pragmatists and all you know is: not Descartes, not Kant, not Plato. It’s like aspirin. You can’t use aspirin to give yourself power, you take it to get rid of headaches. In that way, pragmatism is a philosophical therapy. It helps you stop asking the unhelpful questions (Richard Rorty Quotes) Every government, left or right, always engages in moral crusades. What else are they supposed to do? Especially when they make war; any war has to be a moral crusade (Richard Rorty Quotes) The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not (Richard Rorty Quotes) Always strive to excel, but only on weekends (Richard Rorty Quotes) What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren? (Richard Rorty Quotes) Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with (Richard Rorty Quotes) Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative (Richard Rorty Quotes) Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way (Richard Rorty Quotes) The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial (Richard Rorty Quotes) There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves (Richard Rorty Quotes) If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got except hope? (Richard Rorty Quotes) My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law (Richard Rorty Quotes) Truthfulness under oath is, by now, a matter of our civic religion, our relation to our fellow citizens rather than our relation to a nonhuman power (Richard Rorty Quotes) At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one’s life fighting social injustice (Richard Rorty Quotes) A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change (Richard Rorty Quotes) We are equal inhabitants of a paradise of individuals in which everybody has the right to be understood (Richard Rorty Quotes) I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing (Richard Rorty Quotes) If the body had been easier to understand, nobody would have thought that we had a mind (Richard Rorty Quotes) My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of transcendence (Richard Rorty Quotes) The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that (Richard Rorty Quotes)