No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population,… — John T. Flynn 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
Pure pragmatism can't imagine a bold future. Pure idealism can't get anything done. It is the delicate blend of both that drives… — Simon Sinek 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
“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
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
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
“A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
..She had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
“Genius cannot simply float in the clouds, it must also operate down on earth.” — Irène Némirovsky 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
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
Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking. — John Dewey 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
“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
“ Ayer may be considered a practical atheist: one who sees no reason to worship an invisible deity.” — James A. Haught Copy Share Image
Extremists on the left tend to be just as critical of pragmatism as extremists on the right. — Richard M. Nixon 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
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
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
“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
The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
