Description Quote by Richard Rorty Download Open image “The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not.” — Richard Rorty ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Description Inspirational Love World
We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
The way we see the world is not actually the world in itself. What we see is our idea of it. The truth is,… — Emma Restall Orr Copy Share Image
The description of the world that most people have is very limited. They are in the fog. Once in a while a genuine insight… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty 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
Developing fewer features allows you to conserve development resources and spend more time refining those features that users really need. Fewer features mean fewer… — Jakob Nielsen Copy Share Image
It is a great delusion to suppose that flesh-meat of any kind is essential to health. Considerably more than three parts of the work… — Catherine Booth Copy Share Image
“There was a short railway official travelling up to the terminus, three fairly short market-gardeners picked up two stations afterwards, one very short widow… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
First of all, principles should be general. That is, it must be possible to formulate them without use of what would be intuitively recognized… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all. — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations. — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Part of my plan was not only to introduce all useful animals that I possibly could into this part of Australia, but also the… — George Grey Copy Share Image
The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is. — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Christianity also stands in opposition to intellectual, as well as physical, health. To doubt becomes sin. 'Faith means not wanting to know what it… — Robert Sheaffer Copy Share Image
My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they… — John Cleveland Copy Share Image
