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Human Quotes by Richard Rorty
- To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world.
- To say that truth is not out there is simply to say that where there are no sentences there is no truth, that sentences are…
- At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.
- The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
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- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
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