Conditions Quote 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…

— Richard Rorty

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.

— 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…

— 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…

— Richard Rorty

Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.

— Richard Rorty

“There is nothing sacred about universality which makes the shared automatically better than the unshared.”

— Richard Rorty

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.

— 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…

— 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…

— Richard Rorty

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

— Richard Rorty

The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition

— Richard Rorty

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

— Richard Rorty