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
The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing… — 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
