Author: Josiah Royce

Quotes

For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as expressing a meaning.

For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as expressing a meaning.

- 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.

Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.

- 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.

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

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.

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

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