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Josiah Royce quotes

American Philosopher November 20, 1855 – September 14, 1916

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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. Josiah Royce
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. Josiah Royce
Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning. Josiah Royce
Josiah Royce quote: "God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in..."
God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life. Josiah Royce
Josiah Royce quote: "Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take..."
Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will. Josiah Royce
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. Josiah Royce
Josiah Royce quote: "For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but..."
For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as expressing a meaning. 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 - well, this feeling too, when viewed as the mere psychologist has to view it, appears to be simply what all the other friends report about their friends. 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 helplessly describe only a type. 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. This second aspect is the one which from Kant, until the present time, has formed the deeper problem of thought. Josiah Royce
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 to their true meaning. Josiah Royce
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. Josiah Royce
Josiah Royce quote: "Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find..."
Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living. Josiah Royce
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. Josiah Royce
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. Josiah Royce

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