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 Philosophy and 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