To say, therefore, that thought cannot happen in an instant, but requires a time, is but another way of saying that every thought must be interpreted in another, or that all thought is in signs.

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Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would not ask any question.

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It's important to remember that Rorty's starting point was Hegel, which led him BACK to Dewey.. "For quite a while after I read Hegel, I thought that the two greatest achievements of the species to which I belonged were The Phenomenology of Spirit and Remembrance of Things Past.."

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The entire universe is perfused with signs, if it is not composed exclusively of signs.

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Few persons care to study logic, because everybody conceives himself to be proficient enough in the art of reasoning already. But I observe that this satisfaction is limited to one's own ratiocination and does not extend to that of other men.

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