Truthfulness under oath is, by now, a matter of our civic religion, our relation to our fellow citizens rather than our relation to a nonhuman power.
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
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
Truth is a property of sentences, since sentences are dependent for their existence upon vocabularies, and since vocabularies are made by human being…
Always strive to excel, but only on weekends. - Richard Rorty
Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.
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 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…
There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves. - Richard Rorty
There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.
A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change. - Richard Rorty
A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change.
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
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…
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
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…
Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with. - Richard Rorty
Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.
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