"Socialization of instincts is the bionics of nature's pragmatism.Art Nouveau of the universe of thinking.

It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not be a proof that religion is true. That would be an extension of pragmatism beyond endurance. Santa Claus makes children good in precisely the same way, and yet no one would argue seriously that the fact proves his existence. The defense of religion is full of such logical imbecilities. The theologians, taking one with another, are adept logicians, but every now and then they have to resort to sophistries so obvious that their whole case takes on an air of the ridiculous. Even the most logical religion starts out with patently false assumptions. It is often argued in support of this or that one that men are so devoted to it that they are willing to die for it. That, of course, is as silly as the Santa Claus proof. Other men are just as devoted to manifestly false religions, and just as willing to die for them. Every theologian spends a large part of his time and energy trying to prove that religions for which multitudes of honest men have fought and died are false, wicked, and against God.

Der Pragmatismus ersetzt uns alles, was fr?her die gro?en Ideen, die Ideologien und Religionen, der Glaube an Friede, Menschenrechte und Demokratie zu bieten hatten. Der Pragmatismus h?lt uns davon ab, zu Verbrechern zu werden, oder er macht uns zu solchen, wenn es n?tig ist. Er legitimiert das Bestehen von Rechtssystem, Familie und Arbeit, er l?sst uns nett sein und empfiehlt, sich ein angenehmes ?u?eres zu erwerben. Nachdem wir uns aller Zw?nge nach und nach erledigt haben, sorgt ein einziger Betreuer f?r uns: Pragmatismus.

Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?