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
“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
Among politicians and businessmen, *Pragmatism* is the current term for 'To hell with our children.' — Edward Abbey 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
“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
“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
“When theories of values do not afford intellectual assistance in framing ideas and beliefs about values that are adequate to direct action,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
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
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
“A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.” — Amit Kalantri 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
“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
“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
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
“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
The real, then, is that which, sooner or later, information and reasoning would finally result in, and which is therefore independent of… — Charles Sanders Peirce 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
“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
“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
Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism. — Richard M. Nixon 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
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
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
