"Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous……" — Richard Rorty
"Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative."
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33 Quotes by Richard Rorty
Richard Rorty has 33 quotes on this site.
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The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.
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Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders…
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What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren?
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My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in…
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Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister--corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering…
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Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.
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To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement…
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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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Truthfulness under oath is, by now, a matter of our civic religion, our relation to our fellow citizens rather than…
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If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you…
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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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Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible.
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