There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosoph…

William James
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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. ✨ Dr. William James (2013). The William James Reader, p.429, Simon and Schuster
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