Quotes of Josiah Royce - somelinesforyou

“ 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. ”

- 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. ”

- Josiah Royce

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

- Josiah Royce

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

- Josiah Royce

“ Justice, without loyalty, is a vicious formalism. ”

- Josiah Royce

“ 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. ”

- Josiah Royce

“ 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. ”

- Josiah Royce

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

- Josiah Royce

“ 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. ”

- 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. ”

- Josiah Royce

“ 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. ”

- Josiah Royce

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

- Josiah Royce

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

- Josiah Royce

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

- Josiah Royce

“ If I am loyal, my cause must from moment to moment fascinate me, awaken my muscular vigor, stir me with some eagerness for work, even if this be painful work. I cannot be loyal to barren abstractions. I can only be loyal to what my life can interpret in bodily deeds. ”

- 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. ”

- Josiah Royce

“ 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. ”

- Josiah Royce

“ Justice, without loyalty, is a vicious formalism. ”

- 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. ”

- Josiah Royce

“ It is an evil cause in so far as, despite the loyalty that it arouses in me, it is destructive of loyalty in the world of my fellows. ”

- Josiah Royce

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

- Josiah Royce

“ Justice, without loyalty, is a vicious formalism. ”

- Josiah Royce

“ It is an evil cause in so far as, despite the loyalty that it arouses in me, it is destructive of loyalty in the world of my fellows. ”

- Josiah Royce

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

- Josiah Royce

“ It is an evil cause in so far as, despite the loyalty that it arouses in me, it is destructive of loyalty in the world of my fellows. ”

- Josiah Royce

“ 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. ”

- Josiah Royce

“ Justice, without loyalty, is a vicious formalism. ”

- 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. ”

- 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. ”

- 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. ”

- Josiah Royce
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