Pragmatism Example Quotes & Sayings

The disappearance of theology from the life of the Church, and the orchestration of that disappearance by some of its leaders, is hard to miss today, but oddly enough, not easy to prove. It is hard to miss in the evangelical world
in the vacuous worship that is so prevalent, for example, in the shift form God to the self as the central focus of faith, in the psychologized preaching that follows this shift, in the erosion of its conviction, in its strident pragmatism, in its inability to think incisively about the culture, in its reveling in the irrational. — David F. Wells

The old knowledge had been difficult but not distressing. It had been all paradox and myth, and it had made sense. The new knowledge was all fact and reason, and it made no sense. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I live in California, so I do stand-up paddle board, which is a killer workout. I also run, about four miles every three days. — Ashley Wagner

First, I'm a writer; I look at things from a different point of view. The untrained eye is the eye that sees what's been missed.
Devon, from The Dragon's Breath by Jenna Lindsey — Jenna Lindsey

Some of the best records are the ones that really affect you the most - they're pure emotion and energy, and it's like you're in that person's brain. It's pretty cool. — Ty Segall

I love you, Nikki. I say it with every touch, with every look, with every breath that I take. I love you. I love you so much it hurts. — J. Kenner

Things aren't like this," he kept repeating. "It shouldn't be this way." As if he had access to some other plane of existence, some parallel, "right" universe, and had sensed that our time had somehow been put out of joint. Such was his vehemence that I found myself believing him, believing, for example, in the possibility of that other life in which Vina had never left and we were making our lives together, all three of us, ascending together to the stars. Then he shook his head, and the spell broke. He opened his eyes, grinning ruefully. As if he knew his thoughts had infected mine. As if he knew his power. "Better get on with it," he said. "Make do with what there is. — Salman Rushdie

It's vitally important to be specific. "Guides, I'd like you to help me become happy" is a request that causes your spirit guides to shrug their shoulders and look blankly at each other. (Not literally, of course.) On the other hand, "Guides, I want your help in getting that job I've just interviewed for" gives them something to get their teeth into. — Ainslie MacLeod

My flesh winced, in cowardice, from such a death. — Sylvia Plath

She never had to learn to live in a world that didn't necessarily want to go easy on her. — Jennifer DuBois

Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure. — Friedrich Nietzsche