"God too longs; and because the Absolute Life……" — Josiah Royce
"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."
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31 Quotes by Josiah Royce
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Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.
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Unless you can find some sort of LOYALTY, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.
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So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a…
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Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.
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Religious faith, indeed, relates to that which is above us, but it must arise from that which is within us.
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And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness all our lives win in our union with him…
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This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion…
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For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human…
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We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our…
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A crowd, whether it be a dangerous mob, or an amiably joyous gathering at a picnic is not a community.…
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God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life.
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I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned…
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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
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