God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world. — 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 Image
Religious faith, indeed, relates to that which is above us, but it must arise from that which is within us. — 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 can -… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
