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> [The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else remained the same, but had that deed of treason not been done at all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josiah-royce/the-world-as-transformed-by-this-creative-deed-is-better-than-it/)

[Josiah Royce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josiah-royce/)

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> [No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josiah-royce/no-baseness-or-cruelty-of-treason-so-deep-or-so-tragic-shall-enter/)

[Josiah Royce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josiah-royce/)

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## Other authors on Deed

## More by Josiah Royce

> [Life involves passions, faiths, doubts, and courage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josiah-royce/life-involves-passions-faiths-doubts-and-courage/)

[Josiah Royce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josiah-royce/)

> [Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josiah-royce/interfere-with-the-reality-of-my-world-and-you-therefore-take-the/)

[Josiah Royce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josiah-royce/)

> [Religious faith, indeed, relates to that which is above us, but it must arise from that which is within us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josiah-royce/religious-faith-indeed-relates-to-that-which-is-above-us-but-it-must/)

[Josiah Royce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josiah-royce/)

> [But you are alone. Yet I never tell what you are. And if your face lights up my world as no other can -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josiah-royce/but-you-are-alone-yet-i-never-tell-what-you-are-and-if-your-face/)

[Josiah Royce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josiah-royce/)

> [A crowd, whether it be a dangerous mob, or an amiably joyous gathering at a picnic is not a community. It has a mind,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josiah-royce/a-crowd-whether-it-be-a-dangerous-mob-or-an-amiably-joyous-gathering/)

[Josiah Royce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josiah-royce/)

> [Ideas any one can mould as he wishes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josiah-royce/ideas-any-one-can-mould-as-he-wishes/)

[Josiah Royce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josiah-royce/)

> [As for you, my beloved friend, I loyally believe in your uniqueness; but whenever I try to tell to you wherein it consists, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josiah-royce/as-for-you-my-beloved-friend-i-loyally-believe-in-your-uniqueness-but/)

[Josiah Royce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josiah-royce/)

> [This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I must state…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josiah-royce/this-preparatory-sort-of-idealism-is-the-one-that-as-i-just-suggested/)

[Josiah Royce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josiah-royce/)

> [The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else remained the same, but had that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josiah-royce/the-world-as-transformed-by-this-creative-deed-is-better-than-it/)

[Josiah Royce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josiah-royce/)

> [Only the more uncompromising of the mystics still seek for knowledge in a silent land of absolute intuition, where the intellect finally lays down…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josiah-royce/only-the-more-uncompromising-of-the-mystics-still-seek-for-knowledge/)

[Josiah Royce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josiah-royce/)

> [The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is only preparatory.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josiah-royce/the-other-aspect-of-idealism-is-the-one-which-gives-us-our-notion-of/)

[Josiah Royce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josiah-royce/)

> [If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know, some other man might not have done, I am…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josiah-royce/if-i-look-to-see-what-i-ever-did-that-for-all-i-now-know-some-other/)

[Josiah Royce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josiah-royce/)

> [Men accept without questioning that this world is real and important and worthwhile. This is faith. Philosophy is the ongoing questioning of this faith.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josiah-royce/men-accept-without-questioning-that-this-world-is-real-and-important/)

[Josiah Royce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josiah-royce/)

> [So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed for the whole, and are unique.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josiah-royce/so-far-as-we-live-and-strive-at-all-our-lives-are-various-are-needed/)

[Josiah Royce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josiah-royce/)

> [And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josiah-royce/and-just-because-god-attains-and-wins-and-finds-this-uniqueness-all/)

[Josiah Royce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josiah-royce/)

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