A thing is important if anyone think it important.

The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.

I am tired of the position of the dried-up critic and doubter. The believer is the true full man. (from a biography of James by Robert D. Richardson)

Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself, its veri-fication. Its validity is the process of its valid-ation.

[There are, in us] possibilities that take our breath away, and show a world wider than either physics or philistine ethics can imagine. Here is a world in which all is well, in spite of certain forms of death, death of hope, death of strength, death of responsibility, of fear and wrong, death of everything that paganism, naturalism and legalism pin their trust on.

An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.