Peace is the opposite of dreaming. It’s built slowly and surely through brutal compromises and tiny victories that you don’t even see. It’s a messy business, bringing peace into the world.
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...
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H.l. Mencken
A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.
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Amit Kalantri
There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.
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Richard M. Rorty
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...
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William James
See the exquisite contrast of the types of mind! The pragmatist clings to facts and concreteness, observes truth at its work in particular cases, and generalises. Truth, for him, becomes a class-name for all sorts of definite working-values in experience. For the rationalist it remains...
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William James
More Quotes By Bono
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.
There's no retirement for an artist, its your way of living so theres no end to it.
Christians are hard to tolerate I don’t know how Jesus does it
We're starting our own religion at last. The Order of Frisbeetarians. We believe that when you die, your soul ascends to a rooftop and you can never get it back.
