“A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
In the end, pragmatism requires a workable compromise. But none exists on Brexit. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
I'm not pro-fracking. But sometimes there's got to be some pragmatism. — John Fetterman Copy Share Image
“Let us not pretend to doubt in philosophy what we do not doubt in our hearts.” — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Among politicians and businessmen, *Pragmatism* is the current term for 'To hell with our children.' — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Pursue your passion, and everything will fall into place. This is not being romantic. This is the highest order of pragmatism.” — Gabrielle Giffords Copy Share Image
“To be a saint or a man of too good a nature in today's pragmatic world, with everyone out to get the… — Shūsaku Endō Copy Share Image
“When civilians kill, it is called murder. When governments kill, it is called pragmatism.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“There are no atheists in foxholes or ideologues in a financial crisis. Ben Bernanke” — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
“Pragmatism is nothing without imagination; and imagination is wasted without pragmatism” — Robert Holdstock Copy Share Image
Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The Citizen's Petition reflects Vermont's spirit of pragmatism and across-the-board cooperation. I applaud the 'Campaign to Fix the Debt' for calling attention… — Peter Welch Copy Share Image
Scientific method is the way to truth, but it affords, even in principle, no unique definition of truth. Any so-called pragmatic definition… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
[Pragmatism's] only test of probable truth is what works best in the way of leading us, what fits every part of life… — William James Copy Share Image
When Emily Dickinson writes, “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul,” she reminds us, as the birds do,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“It never occurs to most of us .. that the question 'what is the truth' is no real question (being irrelative to… — William James Copy Share Image
I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of… — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
I react pragmatically. Where the market works, I'm for that. Where the government is necessary, I'm for that. I'm deeply suspicious of… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Philosophers have actually devoted themselves, in the main, neither to perceiving the world, nor to spinning webs of conceptual theory, but to… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
The disappearance of theology from the life of the Church, and the orchestration of that disappearance by some of its leaders, is… — David F. Wells Copy Share Image
Wherever pragmatism exits in the church, there is always a corresponding de-emphasis on Christ's sufficiency, God's sovereignty, biblical integrity, the power of… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
Man is by nature a pragmatic materialist, a mechanic, a lover of gadgets and gadgetry; and these are the qualities that characterize… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
I do believe in God, but I think it's very healthy for a believer to spend time in the pragmatism of agnosticism,… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
Pragmatism seems predicated on the idea that artificial technique and human strategy are crucial to the church's mission. Many appear to believe… — John Macarthur 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
“The first time the extent of this problem was obvious to me was when I was hanging out with a small group… — Simone Collins Copy Share Image
“See the exquisite contrast of the types of mind! The pragmatist clings to facts and concreteness, observes truth at its work in… — William James Copy Share Image
“It is as if a man should hesitate indefinitely to ask a certain woman to marry him because he was not perfectly… — William James Copy Share Image
“When Lehman Brothers collapsed on September 15, 2008, and inaugurated the biggest crisis since the 1930s, there were no real alternatives to… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we… — William James Copy Share Image
“Don’t be deceived when they tell you things are better now. Even if there’s no poverty to be seen because the poverty’s… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
“It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Too much faith is the worst ally. When you believe in something literally, through your faith you'll turn it into something absurd.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Cine a ucis stelele? Cine a surpat drumul spre viitor al celor din morminte?” — Ionel Teodoreanu Copy Share Image
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