Quotes of: Pragmatism Keyword

My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights.

Tori Amos

When society was patriarchal, as it was in the New Testament context and as it has been everywhere in the world except in modern society in our day, the church avoided scandal by going along with it - fundamentally evil as patriarchy was and is. Now,...

Finally Feminist: A Pragmatic Christian Understanding of Gender

Jesus treats patriarchy the way he treats much else of the law and custom of his time: ambiguously, suggestively, and sometimes subversively, but never immediately revolutionarily outside the central matter of his own mission and person...The main sc...

Finally Feminist: A Pragmatic Christian Understanding of Gender

Curiosity and irreverence go together. Curiosity cannot exist without the other. Curiosity asks, "Is this true?" "Just because this has always been the way, is the best or right way of life, the best or right religion, political or economic value, mo...

Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals

Sufism is, in operation, pragmatic.

The World of the Sufi: An Anthology of Writings about Sufis and Their Work

Well, I mean, I'm very much a pragmatic person.

Ken Livingstone

I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.

Linus Torvalds

However pragmatic you are, it is very demanding being a new parent.

Robert Winston

Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.

Daniel Bell

My mum is a bit unconventional; she's outdoorsy and has more of an emotional intelligence, whereas my dad is pragmatic; he's a businessman.

Tamsin Egerton

The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific perspective.

John Clayton

Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.

Billy Corgan

I think you are born, and I think you die. I have a pragmatic nature, but I yearn to believe.

Sebastian Horsley

My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.

Ursula Burns

’s discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of —such penetrating minds as and —were abandoning the study of geometry ... because they said it was so UTTERLY USELESS. There was the future of the h...

Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, Volumes V and VI, Pragmatism and Pragmaticism and Scientific Metaphysics

I'm pragmatic. I like efficiency. I want to read what's in front of me and not have my hands tied.

Susan Brooks

I'm afraid I don't have a very pragmatic or unromantic view of props. I don't imbue them with any great sense of mystery or anything.

Martin Freeman

Keeping small nations enslaved because of the deals between the great nations or because of any pragmatic considerations that might have been there are totally unacceptable.

Mikheil Saakashvili

A presidential candidate's great desire is to be seen as pragmatic, and they hope their maneuvering and shifting will be seen in pursuit of some higher purpose. It doesn't mean they are utterly insincere.

Robert Dallek

Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing for something other.

The Forgotten Garden

But I think the children of actors share a certain pragmatic approach. One is denied some of that 'running away with the circus' element of being an actor.

Toby Jones