"Sufism is, in operation, pragmatic."

Pragmatism, Spiritual, Life, Realism

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"High towers, and metaphysically-great men resembling them, round both of which there is commonly much wind, are not for me. My place is the fruitful bathos, the bottom-land, of experience; and the word transcendental, does not signify something passing beyond all experience, but something that indeed precedes it a priori, but that is intended simply to make cognition of experience possible."

Immanuel Kant, German Philosopher

Pragmatism, Experience, Reality, Humility

"You're just a huge romantic at heart, aren't you?""If there's cash involved, I'm anything you want me to be."

Jasper Fforde, British Novelist

Pragmatism, Money, Identity, Irony

"Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum."

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

Pragmatism, Politics, Necessity, Frustration, Power

"The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first can make the second."

Dorothy L. Sayers, British Author

Pragmatism, Success, Opportunity, Money, Initiative

"Medical researchers don't know much about head lice because they don't much care. The reason that they don't much care is, paradoxically, that they know a lot. That is, they know one important thing: there is no evidence that head lice transmit disease."

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

Pragmatism, Science, Ignorance, Health, Research

"It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Pragmatism, Lunacy, Better

"Idealism that makes no distinction between areas where our national interest lies and those from which it is remote does no good for America. The weariness of the post-Versailles, post-Korea, post-Vietnam eras is never far from the national mood."

Dick Morris, American Author

Pragmatism, America, Idealism, Interest, Lies

"Over a lifetime of dealing with difficult women, I have learned it is often better to give into their demands immediately."

Patricia Briggs, American Author

Pragmatism, Relationship, Conflict, Experience, Gender

"I've found that lifting the lid with your foot is the most thorough and least gross path to two minutes of peace of mind."

Elle Lothlorien, American Novelist

Pragmatism, Realism, Humor, Observation

"Honesty is the best policy. But insanity is a hell of a lot more effective in court. So your set, McMullen."

Lois Greiman, American Author

Pragmatism, Honesty, Absurdity, Irony, Justice

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"When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it."

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"None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting."

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"When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts."

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"You're just a huge romantic at heart, aren't you?""If there's cash involved, I'm anything you want me to be."

"Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum."

"The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first can make the second."

"Medical researchers don't know much about head lice because they don't much care. The reason that they don't much care is, paradoxically, that they know a lot. That is, they know one important thing: there is no evidence that head lice transmit disease."

"It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic."

"Idealism that makes no distinction between areas where our national interest lies and those from which it is remote does no good for America. The weariness of the post-Versailles, post-Korea, post-Vietnam eras is never far from the national mood."

"Over a lifetime of dealing with difficult women, I have learned it is often better to give into their demands immediately."

"I've found that lifting the lid with your foot is the most thorough and least gross path to two minutes of peace of mind."

"Honesty is the best policy. But insanity is a hell of a lot more effective in court. So your set, McMullen."

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"A loan is the scissors of friendship.A man's own tongue may cut his throat.The cage has no value without the bird."

"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."

"When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it."

"Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information."

"If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth."

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"I ask about the sky, but the answer is about a rope."

"The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age."

"None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting."

"When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts."