Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will. Josiah Royce heartinterferelife Change image and share on social
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
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. Josiah Royce attainberkeleyfamiliar share on social
Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning. Josiah Royce beginfragmentglimpse 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
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
As for you, my beloved friend, I loyally believe in your uniqueness; but whenever I try to tell to you wherein it consists, I helplessly describe only a type. Josiah Royce belovedconsistdescribe 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
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
