Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

- Richard Rorty

To say that truth is not out there is simply to say that where there are no sentences there is no truth, that sentences are elements of human languag…

- 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

Truth is a property of sentences, since sentences are dependent for their existence upon vocabularies, and since vocabularies are made by human being…

- Richard Rorty

A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change.

- Richard Rorty

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

- Richard Rorty

There are credentials for admission to our democratic society [...]. You have to be educated in order to be a participant in our conversation So we a…

- Richard Rorty

Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.

- Richard Rorty

Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe and makes one…

- Richard Rorty