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Richard Rorty Quotes on Truth

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 truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Richard Rorty:

    “Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.”

  • Attributed to Richard Rorty:

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

  • Attributed to Richard Rorty:

    “A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well, is the chief instrument of cultural change.”

  • Attributed to Richard Rorty:

    “The world does not speak. Only we do.”