"...the production of a work of genius art probably demands more intelligence than does most of the so-called thinking that goes on among those who pride themselves on being 'intellectuals'".

From Reconstruction in Philosophy (1920):

"Honesty, industry, temperance, justice, like health, wealth, and learning, are...directions of change in the quality of experience."

"Growth itself is the only moral 'end'".

Happiness is an active process, not a passive outcome".

"Bishop Butler declared that probability is the guide of life"

"Philosophy...is poetry and drama rather than science".

"Acquisition of skill, possession of knowledge, attainment of culture are not ends; they are the marks of growth and means to its continuing."

"a word...that stands both for a morality as a practiacal socio-cultural fact in respect to matters of right and wrong, good and evil, and for theories about the ends, standards, principles according to which the actual state of affairs is to be surveyed and judged."

"...that men are governed by memory rather than by thought, and that memory is not a remebering of actual facts, but is association, suggestion, dramatic fancy".

"...any inquiry into what is deeply and inclusively human enters into what is the specific area of morals".

"philosophy... must undertake to do for the development of inquiry into human affairs and hence into morals what the philospohers of the last few centuries did for the promotion of scientific inquiry in physical and physiological conditions and aspects of human life".

"..notions, theories, systems, no matter how elaborate and self-consistent they are, must be regarded as hypotheses. -- See Rorty's "unforced agreements".

"Abstraction is liberation". - Predated the Abstract Expressionists...

"That which was high was given the name 'spiritual', ideal, and was idenified with the moral. The other was the 'physical' as determined by the procedures of the new science of nature. In being low it was materialistic."

"Memory is vicarious experience"

"The individual.. as the agent who is responsible through initiative, inventiveness, and intelligently directed labor for re-creating the world, transforming it in an instrument and possession of intelligence.

"...Reason as employed by historic rationalism has tended to carelessness, conceit, irresponsiblity, and rigidity -- in short, absolutism".

"The Industrial Revolution by steam and electricity is the reply to Bacon's prophecy"

Morals , not Natural Science.

Clifford Geertz later spoke of "the ongoing course of experienced things"