Pragmatism Quotes

• El idealismo separado de la acción no es más que un sueño. Pero el idealismo aliado con el pragmatismo, con arremangarse y hacer que el mundo se doble un poco, es muy emocionante. Es muy real. Es muy fuerte.

  Bono

  Sueño, Fuerte, Real

  "My wish: Three actions for Africa". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2005.

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• Pure pragmatism can't imagine a bold future. Pure idealism can't get anything done. It is the delicate blend of both that drives innovation.

  Simon Sinek

  Innovation, Done, Imagine

  Twitter post from Aug 08, 2011

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• El idealismo sin pragmatismo es impotente. El pragmatismo sin idealismo carece de sentido. La clave de un liderazgo eficaz es el idealismo pragmático.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Keys, Idealism, Effective Leadership

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• ...never let a passion for the perfect take precedence over pragmatism.

  Walter Isaacson

  Passion, Perfect, Precedence

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?

  William James

  Truth, Ideas, Differences

  William James (2012). “Pragmatism”, p.77, Courier Corporation

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• El pragmatismo es una filosofía intelectualmente segura pero, en última instancia, estéril.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Philosophy, Safe

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• I am pragmatic. That which works, works, and theory can go screw itself. However, my pragmatism also extends to maintainability, which is why I also want it done well.

  Linus Torvalds

  Done, Want, Theory

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• La grandeza no se manifiesta por un pragmatismo sin límites, que prima tanto que el fin justifique cualquier medio y cualquier método

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Media, Grandeza, Fines

  Margaret Chase Smith (1972). "Declaración de conciencia"

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• No sirve de nada discutir con lo inevitable. El único argumento disponible con viento de levante es ponerse el abrigo.

  James Russell Lowell

  Filosófico, Destino, Duelo

  Democracia y otros discursos (1887) Democracia

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• La única prueba [del pragmatismo] de la verdad probable es lo que funciona mejor en la forma de conducirnos, lo que se adapta mejor a cada parte de la vida y se combina con la colectividad de las exigencias de la experiencia, sin omitir nada.

  William James

  Verdad, Exigencia, Pruebas

  William James (1981). "Pragmatism", p.38, Hackett Publishing

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• The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Definitions, Bottom, Maxims

  Letter to William James, January 08, 1909.

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• Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

  Danny Strong

  Winning, Election, Idealism And Realism

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• I do believe in God, but I think it's very healthy for a believer to spend time in the pragmatism of agnosticism, and I think God appreciates agnostics trying to make a science of it and going, "I will not believe any further than that." I enjoy that kind of engineering mind. In no way did it ever feel blasphemous to me as a man of faith.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Creer, Hombres, Pensar

  "Preguntas y respuestas: Matthew McConaughey y Woody Harrelson de True Detective, los Laurel y Hardy de la desesperación existencial". Entrevista con John Lopez, grantland.com. 8 de enero de 2014.

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• Extremists on the left tend to be just as critical of pragmatism as extremists on the right.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Critical, Extremist, Left

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• Es mejor prevenir los delitos que castigarlos.

  Cesare Beccaria

  Delito

  Cesare Beccaria (2016). “On Crimes and Punishments”, p.107, Transaction Publishers

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• Lees a los pragmatistas y todo lo que sabes es: ni Descartes, ni Kant, ni Plato. Es como la aspirina. No usas la aspirina para darte poder, la tomas para librarte del dolor de cabeza. En ese sentido, el pragmatismo es una terapia filosófica. Te ayuda a dejar de hacerte preguntas inútiles.

  Richard Rorty

  PlatoFilosófico, Dar

  Entrevista con Gideon Lewis-Kraus, believermag.com. 1 de junio de 2003.

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• It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not be a proof that religion is true. That would be an extension of pragmatism beyond endurance. Santa Claus makes children good in precisely the same way, and yet no one would argue seriously that the fact proves his existence. The defense of religion is full of such logical imbecilities.

  H. L. Mencken

  Children, Men, Political

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.371, Knopf

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• Modern definitions of truth, such as those as pragmatism and instrumentalism, which are practical rather than contemplative, are inspired by industrialisation as opposed to aristocracy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Political, Aristocracy, Definitions

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• If theological ideas prove to have a value for concrete life, they will be true, for pragmatism, in the sense of being good for so much. How much more they are true, will depend entirely on their relations to the other truths that also have to be acknowledged.

  William James

  Ideas, Relation, Being True

  William James (2012). “Pragmatism”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• Pragmatism is the disguise progressive and other ideologues do when they want to demonize competing ideologies.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Want, Progressive, Ideologues

  Jonah Goldberg (2012). “The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas”, p.24, Penguin

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• El pragmatismo , al intentar convertir la física experimental en prototipo de toda ciencia y modelar todas las esferas de la vida intelectual según las técnicas del laboratorio, es la contrapartida del industrialismo moderno, para el que la fábrica es el prototipo de la existencia humana, y que modela todas las ramas de la cultura según la producción en la cinta transportadora.

  Max Horkheimer

  Intelectual, Intento, Cultura

  Max Horkheimer (2004). "EPZ Eclipse of Reason", p.35, A&C Black

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• ..She had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon.

  Clive Barker

  Tea, Firsts, Armageddon

  Clive Barker (2015). “Weaveworld”, p.560, Crossroad Press

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• The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

  Thomas Huxley

  Política, Libertad, Política

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.425, Cambridge University Press

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• Western science is approaching a paradigm shift of unprecedented proportions, one that will change our concepts of reality and of human nature, bridge the gap between ancient wisdom and modern science, and reconcile the differences between Eastern spirituality and Western pragmatism.

  Stanislav Grof

  Reality, Bridges, Differences

  Stanislav Grof (1985). “Beyond the Brain: Birth, Death, and Transcendence in Psychotherapy”, p.16, SUNY Press

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• La Petición Ciudadana refleja el espíritu de pragmatismo y cooperación general de Vermont. Aplaudo a la "Campaña para Arreglar la Deuda" por llamar la atención sobre uno de los problemas más acuciantes del país, nuestra abultada deuda nacional, y por instar a los responsables políticos a encontrar soluciones prácticas.

  Peter Welch

  País, Llamada, Deuda

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