Richard Rorty Quotes

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

The world is everything that is the case.

All things of the world are born of being; being is born of nonbeing.

Only where there is language is there world.

From What-is all the world of things was born But What-is sprang in turn from What-is-not.

The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of bringing truth into being.

That which is cannot be true.

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.

Being is the great explainer.

The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow.

Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.

Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.

Truth is the summit of being.

Is perception equivalent to existence?

Being is born of not being.

The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.

No one knows how this world came into being. It is a creation of consciousness itself. It's extraordinary, a mystery.

The world is what it is, no less and no more, and therein lies its entire and sufficient meaning.

That the world is, is the mystical.

Being that can be understood is language.

I believe that nothing that is real can pass away.