Competing Quote by Jonah Goldberg

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 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

My only definition is that I am a pragmatist.

— Enrique Pena Nieto

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 is an intellectually safe but ultimately sterile philosophy.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

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

— Sherry Turkle

“Pragmatism is good prevention for problems.”

— Amit Kalantri

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

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

— Robert Holdstock

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

— Hilary Mantel

A pragmatist is concerned with results, not reality.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

I cannot revere compromise; I cannot revere pragmatism; I long for ideologues.

— Will Cain