“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
“A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.” — Amit Kalantri 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
“Pragmatism is nothing without imagination; and imagination is wasted without pragmatism” — Robert Holdstock Copy Share Image
“There are no atheists in foxholes or ideologues in a financial crisis. Ben Bernanke” — Andrew Ross Sorkin 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
“ Ayer may be considered a practical atheist: one who sees no reason to worship an invisible deity.” — James A. Haught 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
Among politicians and businessmen, *Pragmatism* is the current term for 'To hell with our children.' — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor brought critical qualities to the high court that not everybody thinks are qualities - I happen to think… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
There's eco-pragmatism, where you recognize, 'Yeah, we live on a planet that's permanently altered by humanity, and rather than seek to return… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
“First, guilt-tripping doesn’t work as a campaigning strategy. If you make people feel bad about what they do, you must give them… — Mark Lynas Copy Share Image
As the biocentric view suggests, the garden prospers when control is balanced by equal measures of humility and benevolence. A balance is… — Jim Nollman Copy Share Image
I would rather be erring on the side of common-sense pragmatism and doing everything possible so that I felt that no stone… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For all of its well-deserved reputation for pragmatism, American popular culture frequently nurtures or at least tolerates preposterous views and theories. Witness… — Michael Hayden Copy Share Image
Pragmatism ... reflects with almost disarming candor the spirit of the prevailing business culture, the very same attitude of 'being practical' as… — Max Horkheimer 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
“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 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
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 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
