Josiah Royce Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”