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Josiah Royce Quotes & Sayings

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27 entries tagged including 5 subtopics.
Last updated Oct 2023

Josiah Royce Topics

Thinking
Living
Loyalty
Uniqueness

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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 they, the true individuals, - they belong not to this world of our merely human sense and thought.

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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 in my own way, although one in vain seeks to attain novelty in illustrating so frequently described a view.

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The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else remained the same, but had that deed of treason not been done at all.

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The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is only preparatory. This second aspect is the one which from Kant, until the present time, has formed the deeper problem of thought.

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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 heart.

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That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal expression to the life that now we experience, follows from the very fact that here nothing final or individual is found expressed.

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So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.

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So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed for the whole, and are unique.

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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 shall consent to be strenuous in its industry.

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Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning.

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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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No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement.

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Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.

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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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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 unable to discover the certainly unique deed.

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Ideas any one can mould as he wishes.

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I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see.

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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 patterns that the world or my fellows set for me.

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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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God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life.

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