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Richard Rorty has 33 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.
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Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe…
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What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren?
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My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global…
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Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister--corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all…
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Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.
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Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.
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To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a…
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My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have...…
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Truthfulness under oath is, by now, a matter of our civic religion, our relation to our fellow citizens rather than our relation…
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If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what…
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The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not.
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When you say to yourself, 'I am going to have a pleasant visit or a pleasant journey,' you are literally sending elements…
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Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.
— Evelyn Underhill
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Sometimes my courage fails me and I think I ought to stop working, live in the country and devote myself to gardening.…
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The genuine creator creates something that has a life of its own, something that can exist and function without him. This is…
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The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point…
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If it had remained always my band, my natural tendency would have been to get more complex and arrange things more and…
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