To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world.
Richard RortyI now wish that I had spent somewhat more of my life with verse. This is not because I fear having missed out on truths that are incapable of statement in prose. There are no such truths; there is nothing about death that Swinburne and Landor knew but Epicurus and Heidegger failed to grasp. Rather, it is because I would have lived more fully if I had been able to rattle off more old chestnutsโโโjust as I would have if I had made more close friends.
Richard RortyPhilosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.
Richard RortyWe are equal inhabitants of a paradise of individuals in which everybody has the right to be understood.
Richard Rorty