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#pragmatism

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #pragmatism




Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.


Adam Phillips


#pragmatism #life

Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods.


Margaret Chase Smith


#end #greatness #high #justifying #manifested

If we live with possibilities we are exiles from the present which is given us by God to be our own, homeless and displaced in a future or a past which are not ours because they are always beyond our reach. The present is our right place, and we can lay hands on whatever it offers us.


Thomas Merton


#hope #pragmatism #present #dreams

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


Ionel Teodoreanu


#dreams #hope #pragmatism #dreams

At 1.24 am on 26 April 1986 Chernobyl’s Unit 4 reactor exploded after staff disabled safety systems and performed an ill-advised experiment to check – ironically enough – the reactor’s safety.


Mark Lynas


#ecology #pragmatism #science #experience

Too much faith is the worst ally. When you believe in something literally, through your faith you'll turn it into something absurd. One who is a genuine adherent, if you like, of some political outlook, never takes its sophistries seriously, but only its practical aims, which are concealed beneath these sophistries. Political rhetoric and sophistries do not exist, after all, in order that they be believed; rather, they have to serve as a common and agreed upon alibi. Foolish people who take them in earnest sooner or later discover inconsistencies in them, begin to protest, and finish finally and infamously as heretics and apostates. No, too much faith never brings anything good...


Milan Kundera


#dogma #faith #history #machiavellian #moderation

Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.


Graham Greene


#life

The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.


Robert Green Ingersoll


#atheism #pragmatism #proactive #responsibility #true-religion

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost... He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American...


W.E.B. Du Bois


#dubois #identity #pragmatism #progress #progress

Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.


Richard M. Rorty


#relativism #truth #contemporary






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