Josiah Royce Quotes & Sayings
25 most famous Josiah Royce quotes and sayings (philosopher). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“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.”
“Ideas any one can mould as he wishes.”
“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.”
“Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning.”
“I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
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