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Josiah Royce

No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already.

– Josiah Royce

Josiah Royce

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

Josiah Royce

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

Josiah Royce

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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Josiah Royce

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

Josiah Royce

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.

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Josiah Royce

God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life.

– Josiah Royce

Josiah Royce

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.

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Josiah Royce

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

Josiah Royce

Ideas any one can mould as he wishes.

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Josiah Royce

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.

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Josiah Royce

Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.

– Josiah Royce

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