Author: Richard Rorty

Quotes

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.

- Richard Rorty

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

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

- 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.

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

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.

- Richard Rorty

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