Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will. — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
But you are alone. Yet I never tell what you are. And if your face lights up my world as no other… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
The unique eludes us; yet we remain faithful to the ideal of it; and in spite of sense and of our merely… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else remained the same, but… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the feelings of other people. I never consciously… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
Men accept without questioning that this world is real and important and worthwhile. This is faith. Philosophy is the ongoing questioning of… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
Philosophers have actually devoted themselves, in the main, neither to perceiving the world, nor to spinning webs of conceptual theory, but to… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will. — Josiah Royce Copy Share
Religious faith, indeed, relates to that which is above us, but it must arise from that which is within us. — Josiah Royce Copy Share
But you are alone. Yet I never tell what you are. And if your face lights up my world as no other can -… — Josiah Royce Copy Share
A crowd, whether it be a dangerous mob, or an amiably joyous gathering at a picnic is not a community. It has a mind,… — Josiah Royce Copy Share
As for you, my beloved friend, I loyally believe in your uniqueness; but whenever I try to tell to you wherein it consists, I… — Josiah Royce Copy Share
This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I must state… — Josiah Royce Copy Share
The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else remained the same, but had that… — Josiah Royce Copy Share
Only the more uncompromising of the mystics still seek for knowledge in a silent land of absolute intuition, where the intellect finally lays down… — Josiah Royce Copy Share
The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is only preparatory.… — Josiah Royce Copy Share
If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know, some other man might not have done, I am… — Josiah Royce Copy Share
Men accept without questioning that this world is real and important and worthwhile. This is faith. Philosophy is the ongoing questioning of this faith. — Josiah Royce Copy Share
So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed for the whole, and are unique. — Josiah Royce Copy Share
And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is… — Josiah Royce Copy Share
