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Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.
— Richard M. Rorty
A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change,
— Richard Rorty
The difference between people and ideas is ... only superficial.
— Richard M. Rorty
The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition
— Richard Rorty
The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.
— Richard Rorty
The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not.
— Richard Rorty
I think you can have a Left that isn't culturally conservative talking about lunch-bucket issues.
— Richard Rorty
Solidarity is not discovered by reflection but created.
— Richard M. Rorty
Had there been no Plato, the Christians would have had a harder time selling the idea that all God really wanted from us was fraternal love.
— Richard Rorty
I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.
— Richard Rorty
If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got except hope?
— Richard Rorty
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Truth [is] what is better for us to believe.
— Richard Rorty
What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren?
— Richard Rorty
My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have ... an ambition of transcendence.
— Richard Rorty
If the body had been easier to understand, nobody would have thought that we had a mind.
— Richard Rorty
We are equal inhabitants of a paradise of individuals in which everybody has the right to be understood.
— Richard Rorty
Freedom is the recognition of contingency.
— Richard M. Rorty
At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.
— Richard Rorty
What counts as rational argumentation is as historically determined and as context-dependent, as what counts as good French.
— Richard Rorty
I think that a good Left is a party that always thinks about the future and doesn't care much about our past sins.
— 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.
— Richard Rorty
Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.
— Richard Rorty
Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.
— Richard M. Rorty
There is nothing sacred about universality which makes the shared automatically better than the unshared.
— Richard M. Rorty
All human relations untouched by love take place in the dark
— Richard Rorty
National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary condition for self-improvement.
— Richard Rorty