Psychology Quote by John Piper

“More erudite authors who advocate an irrationalist point of view, such as the pragmatist philosophers, are not to be caught out so easily. They…

— Bertrand Russell

“We may be tainted with pragmatism, but it only needs a clash of personalities to remind us of our principles.”

— Hilary Mantel

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

“Pragmatism is nothing without imagination; and imagination is wasted without pragmatism”

— Robert Holdstock

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

“I seek truth in a book and not the subject.”

— Waslav Nijinsky

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

“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

“But philosophy is one thing, praxis is another.”

— Michiel Heyns

“I do not have it in for relativism. In many respects I find it a fascinating, even attractive, alternative. It engenders epistemological humility, defeats…

— David L. Wolfe

“When our pride usurps Truth, we walk on the shifting sands of relativism, an ego driven reality.”

— alisa hope wagner

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

— Jonah Goldberg