Aim Quote by John Dewey

I am pragmatic. That which works, works, and theory can go screw itself. However, my pragmatism also extends to maintainability, which is why I…

— Linus Torvalds

The task of universal pragmatics is to identify and reconstruct universal conditions of possible mutual understanding.

— Jurgen Habermas

“Praxeology is a theoretical and systematic, not a historical, science. Its scope is human action as such, irrespective of all environmental, accidental, and individual…

— Ludwig von Mises

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 pragmatic approach is more rewarding and virtuous.”

— Wayne Chirisa

Pragmatism is an intellectually safe but ultimately sterile philosophy.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

“The pragmatic method starts from the postulate that there is no difference of truth that doesn’t make a difference of fact somewhere; and it…

— William James

All knowledge is oriented toward some object and is influenced in its approach by the nature of the object with which it is pre-occupied.…

— Karl Mannheim

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

One of the principal objects of theoretical research in my department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which the subject…

— J. Willard Gibbs

Knowledge, in so far as it is directed to practical matters, has only to enumerate the principal possible attitudes of the thing towards us,…

— Henri Bergson