Heart Quote by Josiah Royce

Life involves passions, faiths, doubts, and courage.

— Josiah Royce

Religious faith, indeed, relates to that which is above us, but it must arise from that which is within us.

— 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 -…

— 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,…

— Josiah Royce

Ideas any one can mould as he wishes.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.…

— 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…

— 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.

— Josiah Royce