Richard Rorty Truth Quotes & Sayings

Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake. — Richard Rorty

Taylor and I both pride ourselves on having escaped that collapsed circus tent of epistemology - those acres of canvas under which many of our colleagues still thrash aimlessly about. — Richard M. Rorty

Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with. — Richard M. Rorty

Truth [is] what is better for us to believe. — Richard Rorty

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way. — Richard Rorty

Truth is a property of sentences, since sentences are dependent for their existence upon vocabularies, and since vocabularies are made by human beings, so are truths. — Richard Rorty