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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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: american
Birth: October 4, 1931 - June 8, 2007

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World Speak Language Human Hold Us

I've never been an optimist.

Joan Baez

Never Optimist Been

You have to grow! You grow as a person, and then you will grow in business.

Andrew Cherng

Business Grow You Person Will Then

I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.

John Ortberg

Hate Spiritual People Thinking Long

As a journalist, I interviewed people, and you begin to feel different rhythms in speech, and you can use those things to help carve out a character.

John Sandford

Character People Help Speech You

The voters are going to decide in November who is going to fix their personal family dismay over not having jobs in America. They are going to pick Mitt Romney.

John Sununu

Family America Personal Fix Over

I can understand why Christians call us heretics. But most important, who will God call a heretic? From God's point of view, my revelation is deeply orthodox.

Sun Myung Moon

God View Point Of View I Can Why

The problem is, there are definitely some genuinely lame things on television, and there's more at the bottom of the barrel, because the barrel in a sense has gotten bigger.

Steven Johnson

Problem Television More Bigger Sense

I do have a lot of Australian friends.

Simon Baker

Friends Australian Lot

Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru.

Tracy Kidder

Health Amazing World Sick Care

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

Rita Dove

Poetry Language Powerful Most

You'll be much more successful if you follow your dreams and follow your passions.

Jay Weatherill

Dreams Your Dreams You More Follow

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Care Grow Find Bed Older Whom