Truthfulness under oath is, by now, a matter of our civic religion, our relation to our fellow citizens rather than our relation to a nonhuman power.
Richard RortyThe most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition
Richard RortyMy principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of transcendence.
Richard RortyPhilosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.
Richard Rorty