146 Quotes About Pragmatism

There are no atheists in foxholes or ideologues in a financial crisis. Ben Bernanke

Ein Tier muss an nichts glauben außer an den unsinnigen Sinn des Überlebens. Allein, der pragmatische Mensch unterscheidet sich vom pragmatischen Tier in einer bedeutenden Einzelheit. Sein Spieltrieb erlischt nicht mit dem Eintritt der Geschlechtsreife. Sein Spieltrieb lebt ewig.

If you are ugly, you are ugly. Stop talking about inner beauty because men don't walk around with X-rays to see inner beauty.

The Jesuits have tried to combine God and the world, and have only earned the contempt of God and the world.

You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience. It appears less a solution, then, than as a program for more work and more particularly as an indication of the ways in which existing realities may be changed. Theories thus become instruments, not answers to enigmas, in which we can rest. We don't lie back upon them, we move forward, and, on occasion, make nature over again by their aid.

Our future is held hostage by near term needs.

The little brain still wants a rematch with her. The big brain knows I’d have to sleep with one eye open and my back against a wall.

Vain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man. For just as there is no profit in medicine if it does not expel the diseases of the body, so there is no profit in philosophy either, if it does not expel the suffering of the mind

If you're being swept away, off somewhere, then why count the pebbles on the shore; they're on the shore, after all.