Best - Truth - Richard Rorty

"[T]ruth is but a 'compliment' that we pay to our favourite assertions, or a little pat on the back that we give them."  (Engel citing Richard Rorty)

Engel, Pascal (Author). Truth.
Durham, GBR: Acumen, (date). p 12.http://site.ebrary.com/lib/utah/Doc?id=10455545&ppg=12

best - Michael Austin - Useful Fictions - Page 36

"Since, in telling one's story to others, one wants to be coherent, one has to structure one's story according to [certain] norms.  This means, in effect, that one has to lie.  Nothing in life naturally occurs as a culturally coherent story.  In order to construct such a story we must leave out the details that don't fit, and invent some that make things work better.... The danger here is that we may come to believe our own stories."

Best quotations - Daniel Dennett - Freedom Evolves

"[A]ny phenomenon that apparently exceeds the functional cries out for explanation.  We don't marvel at a creature doggedly grubbing the earth with its nose for we figure it is seeking its food; if however, it regularly interrupts its rooting with somersaults, we want to know why."