Creativity Quote by Robert Holdstock

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

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 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

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

— Jonah Goldberg

“Imagination is my meditation, when I am not creative my mind simply becomes a nuisance of irrelevant thoughts.”

— Zachary Koukol

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

— Sherry Turkle

“Imagination is a glorious thing, Without imagination there would be no solace for our suffering, no wondrous creations, no stories to beguile us, and…

— Karen Wrighton

“Imagination is the bastard child of time and ignorance”

— Bernard Beckett

Pragmatism is an intellectually safe but ultimately sterile philosophy.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

“I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life, and while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be…

— Anonymous

The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.

— Wallace Stevens