Quotes by Josiah Royce - Page 1

Ideas any one can mould as he wishes.
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Mould
Wishes
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Life involves passions, faiths, doubts, and courage.
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Inspirational
Doubt
Passion
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The world is a progressively realized community of interpretation.
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Community
Interpretation
World
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Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.
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Death
Love
Learning
Positive Thinking
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God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life.
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Divine
God Life
Harmony
Our Lives
Unique
All Our Lives
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Loyalty is a good for the loyal man; but it may be mischievous for those whom his cause assails.
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Loyalty
Men
Causes
May
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Unless you can find some sort of LOYALTY, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.
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Loyalty
Active
Loyalty In Business
Unity
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For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as expressing a meaning.
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Individual
Knows
Life Is
Absolute
Expressing
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So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed for the whole, and are unique.
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Needed
Our Lives
Strive
Unique
All Our Lives
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Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.
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Heart
Interfere
Reality
World
Therefore
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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.
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Ideas
Mean
Reality
Deprive
Merely
Sees
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Religious faith, indeed, relates to that which is above us, but it must arise from that which is within us.
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Arise
Religious
Religious Faith
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I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see.
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Harvard
Real
Stars
Teach
Teaching
Heavens
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Memory and hope constantly incite us to the extensions of the self which play so large a part in our daily life.
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Memories
Play
Self
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Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning.
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Glimpse
Hints
Individual
Individual Life
Life Is
Moments
Present Life
Visible
Life Best Life Is A
Beginning
Fragment
Hint
Life Is A
Present
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Men accept without questioning that this world is real and important and worthwhile. This is faith. Philosophy is the ongoing questioning of this faith.
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Men
Philosophy
Real
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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.
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Men
Looks
Unique
Deed
Discover
Man Look I Am
Unable
Utterly
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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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Concrete
Consciousness
Human Form
Individualism
Individuality
Wherein
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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.
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Inspire
Longing
World
Life God World
Absolute
Dwells
Inspires
Longs
Possesses
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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.
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Beloved
Uniqueness
Consists
Describe
Whenever
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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.
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Men
Commit
Consensus
Errors
Error
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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.
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Essentials
Individuality
Winning
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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.
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Individuality
Our Lives
True Meaning
All Our Lives
Attains
Essential
Finds
Union
Wins
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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.
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Transformed
Treason
Deed
Remained
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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.
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Divine
Musical
Order
Phrases
Rhythm
Grasp
Phrase
Temporal
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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.
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Feelings
Fellows
Patterns
People
World
World Me People
Unlike
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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.
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Class
Mean
Unique
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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.
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Respect
Agreement
Consent
Shows
World
Respect World Will
Continually
Shall
Strenuous
Whereby
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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.
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Atonement
Cruelty
Fitting
Loyal
Tragic
Treason
Love Time World
Due
Deed
Enter
Oppose
Shall
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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.
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Community
Mind
Organization
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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.
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Expression
Facts
Finals
Individual Life
Expressed
Follows
Temporal
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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.
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Eye
Individuality
Mortals
World
Belong
Seek
Merely
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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.
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Aspect
Deeper
Firsts
Giving
Idealism
Notion
Present Time
Self
Absolute
Formed
Preparatory
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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.
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Home
Barriers
Heart
Irresistible
Lonely
Longing
Seashore
Watches
Cruel
Foes
Ideal
Material
Shall
Talks
Wanderer
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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.
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Real
Thinking
Unique
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Man you can define; but the true essence of any man, say, for instance, of Abraham Lincoln, remains the endlessly elusive and mysterious object of the biographer's interest, of the historian's comments, of popular legend, and of patriotic devotion.
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Men
Essence
Patriotic
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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.
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Berkeley
Familiar
Fashion
Idealism
Illustrating
Novelty
Prominent
Swag
Vain
Views
Although
Attain
Frequently
Preparatory
Seeks
View
Suggested
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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.
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Feelings
Light
Mere
Psychologist
Views
Appears
Report
Lights
Viewed
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If usually the "present age" is no very long time, still, at our pleasure, or in the service of some such unity of meaning as thehistory of civilization, or the study of geology, may suggest, we may conceive the present as extending over many centuries, or over a hundred thousand years.
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Civilization
Long
Years
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Only the more uncompromising of the mystics still seek for knowledge in a silent land of absolute intuition, where the intellect finally lays down its conceptual tools, and rests from its pragmatic labors, while its works do not follow it, but are simply forgotten, and are as if they never had been.
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Intuition
Land
Tools
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A self is, by its very essence, a being with a past. One must look lengthwise backwards in the stream of time in order to see theself, or its shadow, now moving with the stream, now eddying in the currents from bank to bank of its channel, and now strenuously straining onwards in the pursuit of its chosen good.
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Moving
Past
Self
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Philosophers have actually devoted themselves, in the main, neither to perceiving the world, nor to spinning webs of conceptual theory, but to interpreting the meaning of the civilizations which they have represented, and to attempting the interpretation of whatever minds in the universe, human or divine, they believed to be real.
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Civilization
Philosophical
Real
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