"Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences……" — Richard Rorty
"Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way."
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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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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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More Compliment Quotes
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved…
— Victoria Beckham
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Just don't let the hype of what people are saying and how much they love you, y'know, just take the…
— Mary J. Blige
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I take anything other than 'you big pig!' as a compliment.
— Albert Brooks
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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's…
— Joyce Brothers
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment,…
— Leo Buscaglia
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority…
— Samuel Butler
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I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward.…
— Nick Cave
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The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.
— Lord Chesterfield
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You look at Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and Bush - if you saw them on Halloween, they wouldn't need a…
— Tommy Chong
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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
— Luc de Clapiers
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As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I…
— Clarence Clemons
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There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.
— Robert Breault
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