A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change.
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 RortyTo abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world.
Richard RortyAt 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.
Richard Rorty