Richard Rorty Quotes
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.
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There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.
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I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
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I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.
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The entrenched beliefs many westerners profess about Islam often reveal more about the West than they do about Islam or Muslims.
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Always, in every human action, there are leaders.
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The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
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The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs and convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than with what these words designate.
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The hero is changing in Bollywood, and I approach a hero's role like a character by focusing on its weaknesses. I feel the weaknesses of a character make them more alive, relatable, and human.
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The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.
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If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.
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History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.
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My style in diplomacy is my style as a human being - I'm very direct and very honest.
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Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.
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Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and describe with rapture, how much he loves his country.
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I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!
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If it comes to a choice between being a good soldier and a good human being -- try to be a good human being.
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Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face.
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It's always lovely to be part of a project that, on a creative level, is done for all the right reasons.
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Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.
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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.
