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«Solidarity is not discovered by reflection, but created. It is created by increasing our senstivity to the particular details of the pain and humiliation of other, unfamiliar sorts of people. Such increased sensitivity makes it more difficult to marginialize people different from ourselves by thinking, 'They do not feel as WE would,' or 'There must always be suffering, so why not let THEM suffer?'»
Author: Richard Rorty
(Philosopher)
«Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.»
«The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.»
Author: Richard Rorty
(Philosopher)
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«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.»
«The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.»
«the utopian social hope which sprang up in nineteenth-century Europe is still the noblest imaginative creation of which we have record.»
Author: Richard Rorty
(Philosopher)
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