Aristocracy Quote by Bertrand Russell

Pragmatism ... reflects with almost disarming candor the spirit of the prevailing business culture, the very same attitude of 'being practical' as counter to…

— Max Horkheimer

The truth is an arbitrary, shifting, culturally relative, and historically molded phenomenon.

— Ken Wilber

Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.

— Billy Corgan

In the face of the idea that truth might afford the opposite of satisfaction and turn out to be completely shocking to humanity at…

— Max Horkheimer

“See the exquisite contrast of the types of mind! The pragmatist clings to facts and concreteness, observes truth at its work in particular cases,…

— William James

Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in…

— William James

Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the basic tyrant of the modern age.

— Edward Abbey

“Truth is an illusionary ideal, a structure with a foundation of opinion, garnished by selected facts, eroded over time and rebuilt new every generation.”

— David Grant Urban

The ontological concept of truth is in the centre of a logic which may serve as a model of pre- technological rationality. It is…

— Herbert Marcuse

“Pragmatism and subjectivism obscure the reality of the truth. They engage the mind, but they make it the servant of our desires and our…

— John Piper

The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living…

— Aldous Huxley