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“ The orthodox tend to think that people who, like the postmodernists and me, believe neither in God nor in some suitable substitute, must feel that everything is permitted, that everybody can do what they like. ”

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

~ Richard M. Rorty

Richard M. Rorty Philosophy Pragmatism

Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.

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Richard M. Rorty Pragmatism Relativism Truth

My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.

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Richard M. Rorty Atheism Atheist Civilization Descendants Future Global Civilization Hope Idealism Law Love Perfection Secular Secularist Sense Of Holy Utopia

I now wish that I had spent somewhat more of my life with verse. This is not because I fear having missed out on truths that are incapable of statement in prose. There are no such truths; there is nothing about death that Swinburne and Landor knew but Epicurus and Heidegger failed to grasp. Rather, it is because I would have lived more fully if I had been able to rattle off more old chestnuts — just as I would have if I had made more close friends.

~ Richard M. Rorty

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