"To abjure the notion of the truly human……" — Richard Rorty
"To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world."
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Richard Rorty
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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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Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.
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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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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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More Abjure Quotes
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Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
— Theodor Adorno
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We have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one condition; that our life expresses Christ, the bond…
— John Calvin
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The heavens rejoice in motion, why should I Abjure my so much loved variety.
— John Donne
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I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally…
— Galileo Galilei
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Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.
— George Orwell
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We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth.…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely…
— Iris Murdoch
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This rough magic I here abjure and when I have required some heavenly music, which even now I do, to…
— William Shakespeare
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I abjure you,” Alcide said. Colonel Flood winced, and young Sid, Amanda, and Culpepper looked both astonished and impressed, as…
— Charlaine Harris
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I have been judged vehemently suspect of heresy, that is, of having held and believed that the sun in the…
— Galileo Galilei
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Repentance was never yet produced in any man's heart apart from the grace of God. As soon may you expect…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Either to die the death or to abjure For ever the society of men. Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires;…
— William Shakespeare
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