I cannot revere compromise; I cannot revere pragmatism; I long for ideologues. — Will Cain Copy Share Image
Pragmatism is an intellectually safe but ultimately sterile philosophy. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
WIth both trepidation and relief, I abandoned pragmatism in favor of magnetism. — Tama J. Kieves Copy Share Image
“A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Pragmatism is the disguise progressive and other ideologues do when they want to demonize competing ideologies. — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Our platform is crafted by Democrats but it is not about partisanship, its about pragmatism. — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
..She had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
The common belief is that you are either a dreamer or a realist. But idealism and pragmatism aren't as far apart as… — Bill de Blasio Copy Share Image
“Pragmatism, consumerism, self-help moralism, and narcissism are simply the symptoms of a disease that is, at its heart, theological:” — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“ Ayer may be considered a practical atheist: one who sees no reason to worship an invisible deity.” — James A. Haught Copy Share Image
[Sherlock Holmes] has to understand the world. That's very much John's [Watson] influence on him. But like a lot of the friendships… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“...this is very nice, cozy. You got a nice cozy place, Lublin." "Cramped," Rosa said. "I work from a different theory. For… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Think about everything you read and everything you see. The one thing we can learn from all the horrible things that have… — Greg Proops Copy Share Image
Christians have been trying to help Jesus build His Kingdom by striking a deal with the devil. Every effort to advance the… — John MacArthur Copy Share Image
Ideas are so much flat psychological surface unless some mirrored matter gives them cognitive lustre. This is why as a pragmatistI have… — William James Copy Share Image
“Pragmatism and subjectivism obscure the reality of the truth. They engage the mind, but they make it the servant of our desires… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Utilitarianism is inherently pragmatic - in fact, I prefer to call it "deep pragmatism." Humans have real limitations, obligations, and frailties, so… — Joshua Greene Copy Share Image
The mainstream perception that conservatives are close-minded and dogmatic while liberals are open-minded and free-thinking has it almost exactly backward. Liberal dogma… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“We stand on a mountain pass in the midst of whirling snow and blinding mist, through which we get glimpses now and… — Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
What's impossible not to notice, though - it's all around us - is the diminution of American prose: How pedestrian it has… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
In the face of the idea that truth might afford the opposite of satisfaction and turn out to be completely shocking to… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
“Common-Law judges sometimes talk about the law, and schoolmasters talk about the latin tongue, in a way to make their hearers think… — William James Copy Share Image
An empirical philosophy is in any case a kind of intellectual disrobing. We cannot permanently divest ourselves of the intellectual habits we… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“The goal of religious thinking is exactly the same as that of technological research -- namely, practical action. Whenever man is truly… — René Girard Copy Share Image
There is no trickier subject for a writer from the South than that of affection between a black person and a white… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“The media and intelligentsia were partly complicit in Trump's depiction of the world as a dystopia headed for even greater disaster. 'Charge… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“In the pragmatist, streetwise climate of advanced postmodern capitalism, with its scepticism of big pictures and grand narratives, its hard-nosed disenchantment with… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Quiet pragmatism, of course, lacks the romance of vocal militancy. But I felt myself more a mediator than a crusader. My strengths… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
“What was the power that induced strong soldiers to put off their jackets and shirts, and present their hands to be tied… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Copy Share Image
“Things aren't like this," he kept repeating. "It shouldn't be this way." As if he had access to some other plane of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“This kind of pragmatism has become a hallmark of our psychological culture. In the mid-1990s, I described how it was commonplace for… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“The most violent revolutions in an individual's beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature… — William James Copy Share Image
“Pragmatism emphasizes the irrationality of opinion, and psycho-analysis emphasizes the irrationality of conduct. Both have led many people to the view that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
![“[Sherlock Holmes] has to understand the world. That's very much John's [Watson] influence on him. But like a lot of the friendships and relationships in that world, it's born out of necessity. It makes him better. There's a pragmatism to it. It's not whimsical or sentimental. It's born out of…” quote by Benedict Cumberbatch](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6cd/benedict-cumberbatch-1156_born_sherlock-holmes-has-to-understand-the-wo_2510929.jpg)
