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 Copy Share Image
If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have… — Richard Rorty Copy Share
Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way. — Richard Rorty Copy Share
"True" resembles... a compliment paid to sentences that seem to be paying their way and that fit in with other sentences which are doing… — Richard Rorty Copy Share
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… — Richard Rorty Copy Share
Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative. — Richard Rorty Copy Share
“There is nothing sacred about universality which makes the shared automatically better than the unshared.” — Richard Rorty Copy Share
I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing. — Richard Rorty Copy Share
I illustrate with a quotation from the atheist philosopher Richard Rorty, who died recently and is, I suspect, now having a lengthy conversation with… — Richard Rorty Copy Share
Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe and makes… — Richard Rorty Copy Share
There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves. — Richard Rorty Copy Share
The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition — Richard Rorty Copy Share
Every government, left or right, always engages in moral crusades. What else are they supposed to do? Especially when they make war; any war… — Richard Rorty Copy Share
