Richard Rorty Quotes

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

We are constantly creating ourselves by what we move toward or away from.

We saw in him what we seek in ourselves.

You are what you've been looking for. The answer is always in you alone. There is nothing in the external world. For the external world is an emanation of your own mind, your own thinking and your own imagination. You created this world.

I think and that is all that I am.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.

You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight.

I want to challenge people to find out who they are.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.