Richard Rorty Quotes

"There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves."
- Richard Rorty
(Related: Deep, Nothing)

"Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way."
- Richard Rorty
(Related: Truth, Compliment)

"Always strive to excel, but only on weekends."
- Richard Rorty

"The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that."
- Richard Rorty
(Related: Beliefs, Cause, Language, World)

"The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial."
- Richard Rorty
(Related: People, Ideas, Difference)