"The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not."

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Source : Richard Rorty (1989). “Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity”, p.5, Cambridge University Press

Richard Rorty

#World Quotes #Description Quotes

“I didn't learn a lot from books. I learned a lot from movies.”
“Who wants those gleaming white cosmetically enhanced American teeth?”
“Since man's natural instincts lead him to sin, all men are sinners; and all sinners go to hell. If everyone goes to hell, then you will meet all your friends there.”
“What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward.”
“I definitely want to do movies and stuff.”
“Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there's pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do things that ultimately make them sad.”
“RenÃ© of Anjou [(1409-80)] painted a picture of his mistress's corpse as he found it eaten by worms on having it [her tomb] openedon his return from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. This [is] another instance of the strange mixture of religion and gallantry in those ages.”
“For the first time since 2007, the FDA Has approved a new device to treat obesity. The amazing breakthrough is called a vegetable.”

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