Richard Rorty Quotes on Knowledge
Richard Rorty was an American philosopher who began in the analytic tradition and gradually became its most celebrated internal critic. This page collects quotes attributed to Richard Rorty on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Richard Rorty:
“The world does not speak. Only we do.”
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“Introduction to Consequences of Pragmatism (1982)”
On James's view, "true" resembles "good" or "rational" in being a normative notion, a compliment paid to sentences that seem to be paying their way and that fit with other sentences which are doing so. -
“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.”
Introduction to Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers, Volume I (1991). -
“Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.”
Introduction to Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers, Volume 3 (1998).