Solidarity is not discovered by reflection but created.
~ Richard Rorty

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Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.
~ Richard Rorty

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Contemporary intellectuals have given up the Enlightenment assumption that religion, myth, and tradition can be opposed to something ahistorical, something common to all human beings qua human.
~ Richard Rorty

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Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister—corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all we hold dear.
~ Richard Rorty

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