[Walt] Whitman and [humanist educator John] Dewey tried to substitute hope for knowledge. They wanted to put shared utopian dreams - dreams of an ideally decent and civilized society - in the place of knowledge of God's Will, Moral Law,… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
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 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 Image
Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way. — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
"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 Image
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 Image
Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative. — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
“There is nothing sacred about universality which makes the shared automatically better than the unshared.” — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing. — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves. — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
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