William James Quote

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.


Address to the Yale Philosophical Club, published in the International Journal of Ethics (April 1891) - The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life


All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that...

All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that...

All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that...

All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that...