"What sort of world can we prepare for……" — Richard Rorty
"What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren?"
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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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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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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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The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except…
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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses!…
— Edward Abbey
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I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as…
— Kathleen Battle
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the…
— Jacob Bronowski
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I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the…
— Luther Burbank
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The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
— Luther Burbank
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The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it…
— Leo Buscaglia
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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
— Barbara Bush
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The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
— Dale Carnegie
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Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be,…
— Dante Alighieri
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I'm a man with many defects. I love. I sing. I dream. I was born in the poor countryside. I…
— Hugo Chavez
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