I cannot revere compromise; I cannot revere pragmatism; I long for ideologues. — Will Cain Copy Share Image
“In meetings philosophy might work, on the field practicality works.” — Amit Kalantri 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
Pragmatism is the disguise progressive and other ideologues do when they want to demonize competing ideologies. — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Our platform is crafted by Democrats but it is not about partisanship, its about pragmatism. — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
..She had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon. — Clive Barker 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
“Pragmatism, consumerism, self-help moralism, and narcissism are simply the symptoms of a disease that is, at its heart, theological:” — Michael S. Horton 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
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
“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
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
“Past and Present have different customs; new and old adopt different measures. To try to use the ways of a generous and… — Han Fei 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
“Pragmatism and subjectivism obscure the reality of the truth. They engage the mind, but they make it the servant of our desires… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Utilitarianism is inherently pragmatic - in fact, I prefer to call it "deep pragmatism." Humans have real limitations, obligations, and frailties, so… — Joshua Greene 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
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
The mainstream perception that conservatives are close-minded and dogmatic while liberals are open-minded and free-thinking has it almost exactly backward. Liberal dogma… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“We stand on a mountain pass in the midst of whirling snow and blinding mist, through which we get glimpses now and… — Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
What's impossible not to notice, though - it's all around us - is the diminution of American prose: How pedestrian it has… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
In the face of the idea that truth might afford the opposite of satisfaction and turn out to be completely shocking to… — Max Horkheimer 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
“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
“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
“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
“This kind of pragmatism has become a hallmark of our psychological culture. In the mid-1990s, I described how it was commonplace for… — Sherry Turkle 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
“Pragmatism emphasizes the irrationality of opinion, and psycho-analysis emphasizes the irrationality of conduct. Both have led many people to the view that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
