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Josiah Royce Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning Picture Quote #1

Ideas any one can mould as he wishes Picture Quote #1

Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself Picture Quote #1

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Life involves passions, faiths, doubts, and courage Picture Quote #1

A crowd, whether it be a dangerous mob, or an amiably joyous gathering at a picnic is not a community. It has a mind, but no institutions, no organizations, no coherent unity, no history, no traditions Picture Quote #1

Error is not a mere accident of an untrained intellect, but a necessary stage or feature or moment of the expression of the truth Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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By an individual being, whatever one’s metaphysical doctrine, one means an unique being, that is, a being which is alone of its own type, or is such that no other of its class exists Picture Quote #1

The unique eludes us; yet we remain faithful to the ideal of it; and in spite of sense and of our merely abstract thinking, it becomes for us the most real thing in the actual world, although for us it is the elusive goal of an infinite quest Picture Quote #1

Loyalty is a good for the loyal man; but it may be mischievous for those whom his cause assails Picture Quote #1

Religious faith, indeed, relates to that which is above us, but it must arise from that which is within us Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed for the whole, and are unique Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 (Josiah Royce Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Ideas any one can mould as he wishes (Josiah Royce Quotes) Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself (Josiah Royce Quotes) Life involves passions, faiths, doubts, and courage (Josiah Royce Quotes) A crowd, whether it be a dangerous mob, or an amiably joyous gathering at a picnic is not a community. It has a mind, but no institutions, no organizations, no coherent unity, no history, no traditions (Josiah Royce Quotes) Error is not a mere accident of an untrained intellect, but a necessary stage or feature or moment of the expression of the truth (Josiah Royce Quotes) 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 (Josiah Royce Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) By an individual being, whatever one’s metaphysical doctrine, one means an unique being, that is, a being which is alone of its own type, or is such that no other of its class exists (Josiah Royce Quotes) The unique eludes us; yet we remain faithful to the ideal of it; and in spite of sense and of our merely abstract thinking, it becomes for us the most real thing in the actual world, although for us it is the elusive goal of an infinite quest (Josiah Royce Quotes) Loyalty is a good for the loyal man; but it may be mischievous for those whom his cause assails (Josiah Royce Quotes) Religious faith, indeed, relates to that which is above us, but it must arise from that which is within us (Josiah Royce Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas (Josiah Royce Quotes) So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed for the whole, and are unique (Josiah Royce Quotes) 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 (Josiah Royce Quotes) 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 Quotes) Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will (Josiah Royce Quotes) 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 (Josiah Royce Quotes) 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 (Josiah Royce Quotes) For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell (Josiah Royce Quotes) 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 (Josiah Royce Quotes)