Talk:Pragmatism

Is this Pragmatist or "Practicality"?

I wonder if this should be under pragmatism or under practicality. Shlomif 13:43, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Unsourced and/or misattributed

• "Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them."
  • Attributed to Albert Einstein
  • In older sources this quote is atriubuted to Brenden Francis, for example in:
  • David Grudermeyer, Rebecca Grudermeyer, Lerissa Nancy Patrick (1996) Sensible Self-Help: The First Road Map for the Healing Journey p.255

• If the mountain won't come to Muhammad, Muhammad will go to the mountain.

• "Good Poets Borrow. Great Poets Steal"
  • Source
  • This statement has been applied to other fields of creative activity, including wikipedia:Philosophy and wikipedia:Software development.
  • Corollaries:
    • "Good programmers write. Great Reuse"
    • Source

• "The gods help them that help themselves" Aesop
  • from "Hercules and the Wagoner"

• "If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, when?" Hillel the Elder
  • Hebrew original: אם אין אני לי, מי לי? וכשאני לעצמי, מה אני? ואם לא עכשיו, אימתי?
  • Im ein ani li, mi li? U'kh'she'ani le'atzmi, mah ani? V'im lo 'akhshav, eimatai?
  • Pirkei Avot 1:14