Quotes About Pragmatism

We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.

I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives

Truth is what works.

TO be practical not merely means to steal when everybody steals but to act with wits and wisdom...

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.

My grandparents forgave each other with the pragmatism of lovers in a plummeting airplane. There

My grandparents forgave each other with the pragmatism of lovers in a plummeting airplane. There would be ample time for reproach in the event of their survival.

The romantic view of the natural world as a blissful Eden is only held by people who have no actual experience of nature. People who live in nature are not romantic about it at all. They may hold spiritual beliefs about the world around them, they may have a sense of the unity of nature or the aliveness of all things, but they still kill the animals and uproot the plants in order to eat, to live. If they don't, they will die.

I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.

An idealistic lover is a blind lover, and therefore a true lover; a pragmatic lover is a sighted lover, and therefore a false lover.

Christianity exhorted man to set himself up against Nature, but did so in the name of his spiritual and disinterested attributes. Pragmatism exhorts him to do so in the name of his practical attributes. Formerly man was divine because he had been able to acquire the concept of justice, the idea of law, the sense of God; today he is divine because he has been able to create equipment which makes him the master of matter.

We are neither the pawns of devils, nor the enemies of virtue. We are simply curious, pragmatic, and rebellious -- too curious to be timid, too defiant for morality, and too pragmatic to wreck shit "just because.

Leaders can't afford to let their hearts get in the way. They must always do what needs to be done.", FADE by Kailin Gow

Custom adapts itself to expediency.

I tell people all of the time that they would make any show in this business - whether it's black, white, Hispanic, Jewish, Colombian, Dominican - whatever. They'll make it if it sells. It's a business. It's not personal.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

The beauty of pragmatism is that it enables one to make judgements based on supposed consequences, which always lie in the future and are thus immediately unverifiable.

Who had time for morals in a world like this?

Quick and dirty wins the race. Perfection

Will mankind never learn that policy is not morality--that it never secures any moral right, but considers merely what is expedient?

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

I cannot invest the way I want the world to be; I have to invest the way the world is.

Similarly, bear cubs have been observed eating their mothers several hours after the mother's death. Signals between bears are fundamentally important—a mother bear may become a carcass to be scavenged if she stops signaling, I am functioning as your mother. Bears appear to be more pragmatic than sentimental.