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 absolutedwellgod Change image and share on social
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. Josiah Royce atonementbasenesscruelty Change image and share on social
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. Josiah Royce divinegraspimage Change image and share on social
For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as expressing a meaning. Josiah Royce absoluteexpressindividual Change image and share on social
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. Josiah Royce consciouslyfeelingfellow Change image and share on social
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. Josiah Royce belongeyefind share on social
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 deeddiscoverman Change image and share on social
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 experienceexpressexpression share on social
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. Josiah Royce appearfacefelt share on social
