There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it refuses positively to account for are a genuine portion of reality; and they may after all be the best key to life's significance, and possibly the only openers of our eyes to the deepest levels of truth.
William JamesTruth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it
William JamesThe instant field of the present is at all times what I call the 'pure' experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
William James