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
I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see. Josiah Royce damnharvardheaven Change image and share on social
God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life. Josiah Royce divinegodharmony 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
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
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
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 calldepriveidea Change image and share on social
