Differences Quote by Richard Rorty Download Open image “The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.” — Richard Rorty ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Differences Ideas People Superficial
In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves. — Sam Taylor-Johnson Copy Share Image
Some people have better ideas than others; some are smarter or more experienced or more creative. But everyone should be heard and respected. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Some people have no original ideas because they do not think well enough of themselves to consider their ideas worth noticing and developing. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Ideas are intelligent active things which present themselves to your consciousness for expression. You can only be receptive and express them as they will… — Harvey Dunn 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
It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract… — Jennifer Siebel Newsom Copy Share Image
But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Shortly after I turned 50, both Ted Turner and the AARP came into my life. The only difference? With AARP, there were benefits. — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
The only regret I have in my career, is my managers wanted a big payday, and I wanted four or five more fights before… — Gerry Cooney Copy Share Image
There are those who open their hearts to others...who never think twice about giving of themselves. They are the wonderful warmhearted people who make… — Gilda Radner Copy Share Image
People forget that there is a big difference between coercion and persuasion. The idea that evangelism is coercive is nonsense. — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
A human being can only absorb a small amount of the mystical kundalini, you can be exposed again and again to it, but it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
