[b]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.[/b]
Let’s just say you can take this too far.
Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.
Well, he was an ironist.
There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.
Unless you count the biological stuff.
There are credentials for admission to our democratic society. You have to be educated in order to be a participant in our conversation. So we are going to go right on trying to discredit you in the eyes of your children, trying to strip your fundamentalist religious community of dignity, trying to make your views seem silly rather than discussable. We are not so inclusivist as to tolerate intolerance such as yours.
I like to think that here it’s the fucking Kids.
Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.
That and what you let them get away with.
My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.
Clearly, you can’t get more remote than that.