American - Philosopher | November 20, 1855 - September 14, 1916
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
LoveTimeWorldDeepTreasonHuman
Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.
LifeHeartWorldRealityYouWill
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.
ManI AmUniqueLookKnowDone
The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is only preparatory. This second aspect is the one which from Kant, until the present time, has formed the deeper problem of thought.
TimeThoughtSelfPresentProblem
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.
PeopleMeWorldThoughtFeelings
For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as expressing a meaning.
LifeMeaningKnowNowIndividual
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.
MyselfPresentKnowNowConcrete
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.
AloneWorldFaceViewFriendsYou
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.
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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.
GodWinMeaningUniquenessTrueHim
I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see.
StarsWorldYouTeachRealSee
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.
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