Top 42 Quotes About Rorty

#1. The Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo makes a similar point to Rorty: "We don't reach agreement when we have discovered the truth," he observes; "we say we have discovered the truth when we reach agreement.

Stephen Batchelor

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#2. A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change,

Richard Rorty

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#3. The reason for thinking that there will be no 'last' philosophy is simply that no answer can fail to be an answer to a question, and no question can guarantee its own permanent relevance.

Richard M. Rorty

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#4. 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

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#5. I think that a good Left is a party that always thinks about the future and doesn't care much about our past sins.

Richard Rorty

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#6. Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.

Richard Rorty

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#7. To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world.

Richard Rorty

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#8. Truth is a property of sentences, since sentences are dependent for their existence upon vocabularies, and since vocabularies are made by human beings, so are truths.

Richard Rorty

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#9. The orthodox tend to think that people who, like the postmodernists and me, believe neither in God nor in some suitable substitute, must feel that everything is permitted, that everybody can do what they like.

Richard M. Rorty

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#10. 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

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

Richard Rorty

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#12. We are equal inhabitants of a paradise of individuals in which everybody has the right to be understood.

Richard Rorty

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#13. 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

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#14. If the body had been easier to understand, nobody would have thought that we had a mind.

Richard Rorty

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#15. At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.

Richard Rorty

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#16. There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

Richard M. Rorty

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#17. Solidarity is not discovered by reflection but created.

Richard M. Rorty

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#18. Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.

Richard Rorty

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#19. Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.

Richard M. Rorty

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#20. Truth [is] what is better for us to believe.

Richard Rorty

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#21. The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.

Richard Rorty

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#22. 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

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#23. National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary condition for self-improvement.

Richard Rorty

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#24. Taylor and I both pride ourselves on having escaped that collapsed circus tent of epistemology - those acres of canvas under which many of our colleagues still thrash aimlessly about.

Richard M. Rorty

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#25. Freedom is the recognition of contingency.

Richard M. Rorty

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#26. The difference between people and ideas is ... only superficial.

Richard M. Rorty

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#27. What counts as rational argumentation is as historically determined and as context-dependent, as what counts as good French.

Richard Rorty

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#28. 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

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#29. The conscious need of the strong poet [defined broadly as the creator of new metaphors] ... to come to terms with the blind impress which chance has given him, to make a self for himself by redescribing that impress in terms which are, if only marginally, his own.

Richard M. Rorty

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#30. 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 M. Rorty

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#31. All human relations untouched by love take place in the dark

Richard Rorty

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#32. Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.

Richard Rorty

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#33. The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition

Richard Rorty

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#34. The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not.

Richard Rorty

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#35. Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe and makes one immune to enthusiasm.

Richard Rorty

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#36. There is nothing sacred about universality which makes the shared automatically better than the unshared.

Richard M. Rorty

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#37. 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 M. Rorty

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#38. Well, what there ought to be is an international labor organization, a confederation of the trade unions of all the countries speaking for the workers who are competing with one another, and talking about the difference in wage levels between, say, Europe and Indonesia.

Richard Rorty

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#39. I think you can have a Left that isn't culturally conservative talking about lunch-bucket issues.

Richard Rorty

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#40. What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren?

Richard Rorty

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#41. 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

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#42. Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Richard M. Rorty

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