Extreme pragmatism is just as inhuman as the determinism it so powerfully attacks.

The determinist (who, to do him justice, does not pretend to be a human being) makes nonsense of the human sense of actual choice.

The pragmatist, who professes to be specially human, makes nonsense of the human sense of actual fact.
To sum up our contention so far, we may say that the most characteristic current philosophies have not only a touch of mania, but a touch of suicidal mania.

The mere questioner has knocked his head against the limits of human thought; and cracked it.

This is what makes so futile the warnings of the orthodox and the boasts of the advanced about the dangerous boyhood of free thought.