"No consensus of men can make an error……" — Josiah Royce
"No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already."
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31 Quotes by Josiah Royce
Josiah Royce has 31 quotes on this site.
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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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It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush…
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All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you…
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Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing…
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Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did…
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Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to…
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It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend…
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Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
— Aesop
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Again, with two small children it's incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you're just getting interested in it…
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