#pragmatism

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At 1.24 am on 26 April 1986 Chernobyl’s Unit 4 reactor exploded after staff disabled safety systems and performed an ill-advised experiment to check – ironically enough – the reactor’s safety.


Mark Lynas


#ecology #pragmatism #science #experience

Too much faith is the worst ally. When you believe in something literally, through your faith you'll turn it into something absurd. One who is a genuine adherent, if you like, of some political outlook, never takes its sophistries seriously, but only its practical aims, which are concealed beneath these sophistries. Political rhetoric and sophistries do not exist, after all, in order that they be believed; rather, they have to serve as a common and agreed upon alibi. Foolish people who take them in earnest sooner or later discover inconsistencies in them, begin to protest, and finish finally and infamously as heretics and apostates. No, too much faith never brings anything good...


Milan Kundera


#dogma #faith #history #machiavellian #moderation

Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.


Graham Greene


#life

We make versions, and true versions make worlds.


Nelson Goodman


#philosophy #philosophy-of-science #pragmatism #science

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost... He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American...


W.E.B. Du Bois


#dubois #identity #pragmatism #progress #progress

The Citizen's Petition reflects Vermont's spirit of pragmatism and across-the-board cooperation. I applaud the 'Campaign to Fix the Debt' for calling attention to one of the country's most pressing problems, our ballooning national debt, and for urging policymakers to find practical solutions.


Peter Welch


#attention #calling #campaign #citizen #cooperation

Our platform is crafted by Democrats but it is not about partisanship, its about pragmatism.


Cory Booker


#crafted #democrats #our #partisanship #platform

I abhor anything that constitutes torture. Water-boarding, it's perfectly clear to me it is torture. I never supported extraordinary rendition to torture, always said that Guantanamo should be closed. There is no clash of ideals and pragmatism there.


David Miliband


#always #anything #clash #clear #closed

The author's projected intellectual climate nearly 500 years in the future proclaims itself too pragmatic to consider living well as important as material satisfaction. This reminds us, ironically, that choosing NOT to consider life's deeper questions is in itself a choice with profound and lasting consequences.


Bryan M. Litfin


#philosophy #pragmatism #life

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


Daniel Bell


#america #been #discussion #europe #grubby