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> [“What makes us moral beings is that...there are some acts we believe we ought to die rather than commit...But now suppose that one has in fact done one of the things one could not have imagined doing, and finds that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rorty/what-makes-us-moral-beings-is-that-there-are-some-acts-we-believe-we/)

[Richard Rorty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rorty/)

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## More by Richard Rorty

> [If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rorty/if-i-had-to-lay-bets-my-bet-would-be-that-everything-is-going-to-go/)

[Richard Rorty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rorty/)

> [Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rorty/truth-is-simply-a-compliment-paid-to-sentences-seen-to-be-paying/)

[Richard Rorty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rorty/)

> ["True" resembles... a compliment paid to sentences that seem to be paying their way and that fit in with other sentences which are doing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rorty/true-resembles-a-compliment-paid-to-sentences-that-seem-to-be-paying/)

[Richard Rorty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rorty/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rorty/open-mindedness-should-not-be-fostered-because-as-scripture-teaches/)

[Richard Rorty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rorty/)

> [Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rorty/philosophy-makes-progress-not-by-becoming-more-rigorous-but-by/)

[Richard Rorty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rorty/)

> [“There is nothing sacred about universality which makes the shared automatically better than the unshared.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rorty/there-is-nothing-sacred-about-universality-which-makes-the-shared/)

[Richard Rorty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rorty/)

> [I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rorty/i-think-of-an-intellectual-as-just-being-bookish-being-interested-in/)

[Richard Rorty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rorty/)

> [I illustrate with a quotation from the atheist philosopher Richard Rorty, who died recently and is, I suspect, now having a lengthy conversation with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rorty/i-illustrate-with-a-quotation-from-the-atheist-philosopher-richard/)

[Richard Rorty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rorty/)

> [Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe and makes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rorty/academic-disciplines-are-subject-to-being-overtaken-by-attacks-of/)

[Richard Rorty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rorty/)

> [There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rorty/there-is-nothing-deep-down-inside-us-except-what-we-have-put-there/)

[Richard Rorty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rorty/)

> [The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rorty/the-most-important-advance-that-the-west-has-yet-made-is-to-develop-a/)

[Richard Rorty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rorty/)

> [Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rorty/always-strive-to-excel-but-only-on-weekends/)

[Richard Rorty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rorty/)

> [Every government, left or right, always engages in moral crusades. What else are they supposed to do? Especially when they make war; any war…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rorty/every-government-left-or-right-always-engages-in-moral-crusades-what/)

[Richard Rorty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rorty/)

> [The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rorty/the-world-is-out-there-but-descriptions-of-the-world-are-not/)

[Richard Rorty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rorty/)

> [What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rorty/what-sort-of-world-can-we-prepare-for-our-great-grandchildren/)

[Richard Rorty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rorty/)

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