Pragmatism Quotes

Don’t be deceived when they tell you things are better now. Even if there’s no poverty to be seen be...

Do you know what I think?" Marcone said."You think we should shoot Nicodemus in the back at the firs...

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

Too much faith is the worst ally. When you believe in something literally, through your faith you'll...

The principle chore of brains is to get the body parts where they should be in order that the organi...

Witta feared nothing - except to be poor.

Things aren't like this," he kept repeating. "It shouldn't be this way." As if he had access to some...

Coming from a business family, she shied away from abstractions.

In the pragmatist, streetwise climate of advanced postmodern capitalism, with its scepticism of big ...

If we live with possibilities we are exiles from the present which is given us by God to be our own,...

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-cons...

One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled striv...

Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete di...

An outree explanation, violating all our preconceptions, would never pass for a true account of a no...

See the exquisite contrast of the types of mind! The pragmatist clings to facts and concreteness, ob...

It is as if a man should hesitate indefinitely to ask a certain woman to marry him because he was no...

I am growing old enough not to care much for the MANNER of doing things.

Peace is the opposite of dreaming. It’s built slowly and surely through brutal compromises and tiny ...

But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has bee...

It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calcul...

I believe in steel swords, gold coins, and man's wits. (...) And I believe there once were dragons. ...

Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets insid...

It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true i...