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.Richard Rorty
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There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.
Nathaniel Rich -
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.
Iain Sinclair -
Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
Caitlin Moran -
I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.
Aaron Paul -
The entrenched beliefs many westerners profess about Islam often reveal more about the West than they do about Islam or Muslims.
Hamza Yusuf -
Always, in every human action, there are leaders.
Vicente Fox
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The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.
Gary Hamel -
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.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
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.
Octavio Paz -
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.
Randeep Hooda -
The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.
J. Irwin Miller -
If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.
Hans Eysenck
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My style in diplomacy is my style as a human being - I'm very direct and very honest.
Samantha Power -
Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.
Lactantius -
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.
Karl Philipp Moritz -
I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!
Ingrid Bergman -
Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
A. J. P. Taylor -
All human beings have the capability of doing what they want, what they're attracted to.
Jack Kirby
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A human being is part of a whole called by us the universe.
Albert Einstein -
If I were trying to impress a girl, I wouldn't get all super dressed because I would look like I was trying too hard. Instead, I would probably wear what I normally would.
Taylor Lautner -
I sang in 'Waiting for Guffman,' and I sang in 'A Mighty Wind.' I can carry a tune, but I don't like that Broadway singing.
Parker Posey -
Metal has always been somewhat marginalized, and I love to prove the perception and stereotypes that go with it wrong.
Eddie Trunk -
Being nice to people is, in fact, one of the incidental tenets of Christianity (as opposed to other religions whose tenets are more along the lines of 'kill everyone who doesn't smell bad and doesn't answer to the name Mohammed').
Ann Coulter -
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.
Richard Rorty