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
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. Josiah Royce concreteconsciousnessconsist 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
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 creativedeedremain 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
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
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
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
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 barriercruelfact share on social
