Attitude Quote by Max Horkheimer

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

— Jonah Goldberg

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

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

My only definition is that I am a pragmatist.

— Enrique Pena Nieto

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

— Robert Holdstock

“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

“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

“Prophetic pragmatism attempts to keep alive the sense of alternative ways of life and of struggle based on the best of the past. In…

— Cornel West

Pure pragmatism can't imagine a bold future. Pure idealism can't get anything done. It is the delicate blend of both that drives innovation.

— Simon Sinek

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