"My sense of the holy is bound up……" — Richard Rorty
"My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law."
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Richard Rorty
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33 Quotes by Richard Rorty
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Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.
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My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease…
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The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not.
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What counts as rational argumentation is as historically determined and as context-dependent, as what counts as good French.
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