Richard Rorty World Quotations

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.

To say that truth is not out there is simply to say that where there are no sentences there is no truth, that sentences are elements of human languages, and that languages are human creations.~ The suggestion that truth~ is out there is a legacy of an age in which the world was seen as the creation of a being who had a language his own.

The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not.

To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world.

What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren?