146 Quotes About Pragmatism

Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing for something other.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

Level-headed pragmatism in the face of destiny is the most empowering option in a dis- empowering situation.

We do the self that is connected with the whole universe.

Rationality is a matter of making allowed moves within language games. Imagination creates the games that reason proceeds to play. Then, exemplified by people such as Plato and Newton, it keeps modifying those games so that playing them is more interesting and profitable.Reason cannot get outside of the latest circle that imagination has drawn. It is in this sense, and only in this sense, that imagination holds the primacy.

We need to think of imagination not as the faculty that produces visual or auditory images but as a combination of novelty and luck. To be imaginative, as opposed to being merely fantastical is to do something new and to be lucky enough to have that novelty be adopted by one's fellow humans, incorporated into their social practices.

...nature itself is a poem that we humans have written [...and] the imagination is the principle vehicle of human progress.

Cine a ucis stelele? Cine a surpat drumul spre viitor al celor din morminte?

Witta feared nothing - except to be poor.