Top 35 Josiah Royce Quotes (2024 Update)

Josiah Royce Quote: “Loyalty is a good for the loyal man; but it may be mischievous for those whom his cause assails.”

1. “Loyalty is a good for the loyal man; but it may be mischievous for those whom his cause assails.”

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Josiah Royce Quote: “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.”

2. “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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Josiah Royce Quote: “Unless you can find some sort of LOYALTY, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.”

3. “Unless you can find some sort of LOYALTY, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.”

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Josiah Royce Quote: “I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see.”

4. “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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Josiah Royce Quote: “Life involves passions, faiths, doubts, and courage.”

5. “Life involves passions, faiths, doubts, and courage.”

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

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

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Josiah Royce Quote: “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.”

7. “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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Josiah Royce Quote: “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.”

8. “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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Josiah Royce Quote: “Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning.”

9. “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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Josiah Royce Quote: “Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.”

10. “Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.”

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Josiah Royce Quote: “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.”

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

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

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Josiah Royce Quote: “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.”

13. “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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Josiah Royce Quote: “Men accept without questioning that this world is real and important and worthwhile. This is faith. Philosophy is the ongoing questioning of this faith.”

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

15. “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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Josiah Royce Quote: “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.”

16. “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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Josiah Royce Quote: “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.”

17. “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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Josiah Royce Quote: “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.”

18. “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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Josiah Royce Quote: “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.”

19. “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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Josiah Royce Quote: “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.”

20. “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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Josiah Royce Quote: “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.”

21. “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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Josiah Royce Quote: “Memory and hope constantly incite us to the extensions of the self which play so large a part in our daily life.”

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

23. “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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Josiah Royce Quote: “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.”

24. “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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Josiah Royce Quote: “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.”

25. “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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Josiah Royce Quote: “Religious faith, indeed, relates to that which is above us, but it must arise from that which is within us.”

26. “Religious faith, indeed, relates to that which is above us, but it must arise from that which is within us.”

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Josiah Royce Quote: “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.”

27. “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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Josiah Royce Quote: “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.”

28. “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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Josiah Royce Quote: “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.”

29. “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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Josiah Royce Quote: “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.”

30. “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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Josiah Royce Quote: “Speech has, indeed, its origin in social conformity.”

31. “Speech has, indeed, its origin in social conformity.”

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Josiah Royce Quote: “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.”

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

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

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Josiah Royce Quote: “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.”

34. “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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Josiah Royce Quote: “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.”

35. “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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