Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.
Graham GreeneMots clés pragmatism
See the exquisite contrast of the types of mind! The pragmatist clings to facts and concreteness, observes truth at its work in particular cases, and generalises. Truth, for him, becomes a class-name for all sorts of definite working-values in experience. For the rationalist it remains a pure abstraction, to the bare name of which we must defer. When the pragmatist undertakes to show in detail just why we must defer, the rationalist is unable to recognise the concretes from which his own abstraction is taken. He accuses us of denying truth; whereas we have only sought to trace exactly why people follow it and always ought to follow it. Your typical ultra-abstractions fairly shudders at concreteness: other things equal, he positively prefers the pale and spectral. If the two universes were offered, he would always choose the skinny outline rather than the rich thicket of reality. It is so much purer, clearer, nobler.
William JamesMots clés truth philosophy idealism pragmatism rationalism
Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing for something other.
Kate MortonMots clés desires pragmatism
Don’t be deceived when they tell you things are better now. Even if there’s no poverty to be seen because the poverty’s been hidden. Even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and useless goods which industries foist on you and even if it seems to you that you never had so much, that is only the slogan of those who still have much more than you. Don’t be taken in when they paternally pat you on the shoulder and say that there’s no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason to fight because if you believe them they will be completely in charge in their marble homes and granite banks from which they rob the people of the world under the pretence of bringing them culture. Watch out, for as soon as it pleases them they’ll send you out to protect their gold in wars whose weapons, rapidly developed by servile scientists, will become more and more deadly until they can with a flick of the finger tear a million of you to pieces.
Jean-Paul MaratMots clés politics pragmatism sad-but-true jean-paul-marat
However much you study, you cannot know without action.
A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man.
Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book?
Mots clés books pragmatism
Mots clés belief dreams hope pragmatism
We make versions, and true versions make worlds.
Nelson GoodmanMots clés philosophy pragmatism philosophy-of-science irrealism
Revenge is a dish best served unexpectedly and from a distance - like a thrown trifle.
Frances HardingeMots clés revenge pragmatism
There are no atheists in foxholes or ideologues in a financial crisis. Ben Bernanke
Andrew Ross SorkinMots clés crisis ideology pragmatism
Keep a light, hopeful heart. But expect the worst.
Joyce Carol OatesMots clés optimism pessimism hope best worst pragmatism
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