Richard Rorty

Life is a matter of description and re-description and it has no meaning, apart from the metaphor you happen to be using at any given time ↗

— Richard Rorty

#inspirational

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends. ↗

— Richard Rorty

#excel #only #strive #weekends

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

— Richard Rorty

#paid #paying #seen #sentences #simply

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

— Richard Rorty

#books #history #history books #i #i think

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

— Richard Rorty

#deep #deep down #down #except #inside

I think you can have a Left that isn't culturally conservative talking about lunch-bucket issues. ↗

— Richard Rorty

#conservative #culturally #i #i think #issues

The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial. ↗

— Richard Rorty

#difference #ideas #only #people #superficial

The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics. ↗

— Richard Rorty

#handsome #inspired #large #little #long

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

#always #care #future #good #i