Barbara W. Tuchman Quote

Pragmatism is good prevention for problems.

In meetings philosophy might work,on the field practicality works.

Lovers tend to be philosophical, achievers are practical.

We were in separate realities, fast and slow. There is no fixed reality, only objects in contrast.

Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity.

There is no real person whose embodiment plays no role in meaning, whose meaning is purely objective and defined by the external world, and whose language can fit the external world with no significan...

Although this was not a comforting point of view, he did not reject it, because it coincided with one of his basic beliefs: that a man must at all costs keep some part of himself outside and beyond li...

A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.

The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while...

But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy.