Ideas are so much flat psychological surface unless some mirrored matter gives them cognitive lustre. This is why as a pragmatistI have so carefully posited 'reality' ab initio, and why throughout my whole discussion, I remain an epistemologist realist.

Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life

The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.

My experience is what I agree to attend to.

Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.

We do not sing because we are happy, we are happy because we sing.

Our theories are wedged and controlled as nothing else is. Yet sometimes alternative theoretic formulas are equally compatible with all the truths we know, and then we choose between them for subjective reasons. We choose the kind of theory to which we are already partial: we follow 'elegenace' or 'economy'