Josiah Royce Quotes

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• Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.
• Unless you can find some sort of LOYALTY, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.
• So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.
• Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.
• Religious faith, indeed, relates to that which is above us, but it must arise from that which is within us.
• And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential…
• This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I must state it…
• For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply…
• We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes can see; and…
• A crowd, whether it be a dangerous mob, or an amiably joyous gathering at a picnic is not a community. It has a mind, but…
• God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life.
• I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see.
• But you are alone. Yet I never tell what you are. And if your face lights up my world as no other can - well,…
• I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the feelings of other people. I never consciously thought, except after…
• Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the will, the will…
• 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…
• Life involves passions, faiths, doubts, and courage.
• For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as expressing a meaning.
• 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…
• If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know, some other man might not have done, I am utterly…

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