Richard Rorty Quotes About Belief

Quotes about: Belief

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

  Richard Rorty

  Motivational, Belief, Deep Inside

  Richard Rorty (1982). “Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays, 1972-1980”, p.42, U of Minnesota Press

• 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

  Ambition, Belief, Transcendence

  Richard Rorty (1991). “Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers”, p.12, Cambridge University Press

• 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

  Doe, World, Causes

  Richard Rorty (1989). “Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity”, p.6, Cambridge University Press

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