I am pragmatic. That which works, works, and theory can go screw itself. However, my pragmatism also extends to maintainability, which is… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
“The author's projected intellectual climate nearly 500 years in the future proclaims itself too pragmatic to consider living well as important as… — Bryan M. Litfin Copy Share Image
I abhor anything that constitutes torture. Water-boarding, its perfectly clear to me it is torture. I never supported extraordinary rendition to torture,… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
Strength, the American way, is not manifested by threats of criminal prosecution or police state methods. Leadership is not manifested by coercion,… — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
“The notion of God, on the other hand, however inferior it may be in clearness to those mathematical notions so current in… — William James Copy Share Image
“An outree explanation, violating all our preconceptions, would never pass for a true account of a novelty. We should scratch round industriously… — William James Copy Share Image
“Pragmatism is cold comfort when millions of lives are in the balance,” conceded Boucher. “It’s a little like saying, ‘Sorry, I can’t… — Jeremy Robinson Copy Share Image
While it is all very well to distinguish happiness that is transient from that which is lasting, between ephemeral and genuine happiness,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Pragmatism , in trying to turn experimental physics into a prototype of all science and to model all spheres of intellectual life… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Christianity exhorted man to set himself up against Nature, but did so in the name of his spiritual and disinterested attributes. Pragmatism… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
In many places it is literally not safe physically for youngsters to go to school. And in many schools, and its becoming… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true… — William James Copy Share Image
“Let us say plainly: the unredeemed state of the world consists precisely in the failure to understand the meaning of creation, in… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“The ways of the heart are complex.” He looked out at the ocean again. “The waves churn and break upon the rocks,… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
You simply can't make someone love you if they don't. You must choose someone who already loves you. If you choose someone… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
You read the pragmatists and all you know is: not Descartes, not Kant, not Plato. It's like aspirin. You can't use aspirin… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
All of the members of my new team have displayed in their work a strong sense of pragmatism that I promote... The… — Donald Tsang Copy Share Image
Modern definitions of truth, such as those as pragmatism and instrumentalism, which are practical rather than contemplative, are inspired by industrialisation as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Western science is approaching a paradigm shift of unprecedented proportions, one that will change our concepts of reality and of human nature,… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
There are partnerships based on principle. There are partnerships based on pragmatism. And fortunately, when it comes to Indo-American relations, both concentrations… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
The perception of the West as mostly a "knight of democracy" has been replaced with the disappointed belief that pragmatism, often cynical… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“I don’t think you can ensure anything when it comes to people. I’m sure you find it odd, but most of us… — Lindsay Buroker Copy Share Image
If theological ideas prove to have a value for concrete life, they will be true, for pragmatism, in the sense of being… — William James Copy Share Image
“Prophetic pragmatism attempts to keep alive the sense of alternative ways of life and of struggle based on the best of the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Plato and his objectivistic successors ... preserved the awareness of differences that pragmatism has been invented to deny the difference between thinking… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
“I am whatever I need to be to survive. Roles are as interchangeable as clothes and there are enough fools out there… — Belart Wright Copy Share Image
When I first met Tony Blair in 1996, he was open and idealistic, keen to bring a breath of fresh air to… — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making… — Bono Copy Share Image
His track record of pragmatism, depth and candor all speak to a person who would find the Tea Party simplistic, opportunistic and… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
“Intellectual progress usually occurs through sheer abandonment of questions together with both of the alternatives they assume -- an abandonment that results… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
