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My only definition is that I am a pragmatist.

— Enrique Pena Nieto

Pragmatism is the disguise progressive and other ideologues do when they want to demonize competing ideologies.

— Jonah Goldberg

The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes…

— William James

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

A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.

— Edmund Burke

Odd that we think definitions are definitive.

— Larry Wall

Pragmatism is an intellectually safe but ultimately sterile philosophy.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

The word 'definition' has come to have a dangerously reassuring sound, owing no doubt to its frequent occurrence in logical and mathematical writings.

— Willard Van Orman Quine

“Pragmatism emphasizes the irrationality of opinion, and psycho-analysis emphasizes the irrationality of conduct. Both have led many people to the view that there is…

— Bertrand Russell

“In this dismissal of origins we see the new pragmatism.”

— Sherry Turkle

Extremists on the left tend to be just as critical of pragmatism as extremists on the right.

— Richard M. Nixon

Pragmatism , in trying to turn experimental physics into a prototype of all science and to model all spheres of intellectual life after the…

— Max Horkheimer