All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They presen…

William James
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All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of probable causes of future experience, factors to which the environment and the lessons it has so far taught us must learn to bend. ✨ William James (2015). Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays, p.119, 谷月社
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