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> ["True" resembles... a compliment paid to sentences that seem to be paying their way and that fit in with other sentences which are doing so.](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/)

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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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