Contingency Quote by Richard Rorty Download Open image “Freedom is the recognition of contingency.” — Richard Rorty ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contingency Freedom Psychology Recognition
Freedom is the awareness of alternatives and of the ability to choose. It is contingent upon consciousness, and so may be gained or lost,… — Allen Wheelis Copy Share Image
Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond. — Jeffrey Borenstein Copy Share Image
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Freedom is the privilege of making one's own thoughts and choices the superior opinion in one's own life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To me, freedom means having the power, the inherent right, the capacity and the ability to make choices that honour who I am. — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it. — Pericles Copy Share Image
Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly. — Hillary Clinton 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
“Seriously, this old woman had no idea how close she came to being squashed like a roach. -Sage Hannigan, Contingency” — P. S. Martinez Copy Share Image
What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those moments of… — Will Self Copy Share Image
We will build a Marine Corps based on 36 battalions, which the Heritage Foundation notes is the minimum needed to deal with major contingencies.… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“Evaluation must be done in hindsight, after the work has been done, not for proposals for work to be done. That said, secondary factors… — Venkatesh Narayanamurti Copy Share Image
“The universe made no promises. It owes you nothing. It did not invite you to be born. It made no commitments that it could… — Tobias M. Kohl Copy Share Image
You can’t control every contingency. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it’ll be okay anyway. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The very essence of civilized culture is that we deliberately institute, in advance of the happening of various contingencies and emergencies of life, devices… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
The denial of "self" challenges only the notion of a static self independent of body and mind-not the ordinary sense of ourself as a… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“But do you imagine there’s a certain type of person in the world who conforms to the idea of a ‘bad person'? You’ll never… — Natsume Sōseki Copy Share Image
... regard this body as a machine which, having been made by the hand of God, is incomparably better ordered than any machine that… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
A president must be on the job 24/7, ready for any contingency, any crisis, anywhere, anytime. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
