Pragmatists Quotes

pragmatist that I am, I always meet necessity with enthusiasm.

I think it's a misreading of Dostoevsky to think of him as a programmatic theist. He's actually much closer to someone like William James. He's actually a pragmatist.

I'd describe myself as a pragmatist tinged with idealism.

A pragmatist is concerned with results, not reality.

I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist.

Nature, the ultimate pragmatist, doggedly searches for something that works. But as the cockroach demonstrates, what works best in nature does not always appeal to us.