You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.

Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.

We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.

There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.

... I am the same personal being who in old times upon the Earth had those experiences.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins. He turns toward concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action, and towards power.