Top 25 Quotes by Josiah Royce of 37 - Page 2

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.

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

Individuality, Consciousness, Individualism

Josiah Royce (1952). “The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown”

If usually the "present age" is no very long time, still, at our pleasure, or in the service of some such unity of meaning as thehistory of civilization, or the study of geology, may suggest, we may conceive the present as extending over many centuries, or over a hundred thousand years.

Josiah Royce

Years, Civilization, Long

Josiah Royce, John K. Roth (1982). “The Philosophy of Josiah Royce”, p.173, Hackett Publishing

Man you can define; but the true essence of any man, say, for instance, of Abraham Lincoln, remains the endlessly elusive and mysterious object of the biographer's interest, of the historian's comments, of popular legend, and of patriotic devotion.

Josiah Royce

Patriotic, Men, Essence

Josiah Royce (1952). “The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown”

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

Men, Errors, Commit

Josiah Royce, John Edwin Smith (1988). “Josiah Royce: Selected Writings”, p.57, Paulist Press

So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed for the whole, and are unique.

Josiah Royce

Unique, Strive, Needed

Josiah Royce (1952). “The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown”

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

Fashion, Views, Swag

Josiah Royce (1900). “The Spirit of Modern Philosophy: An Essay in the Form of Lectures”, p.351, Courier Corporation

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

Light, Views, Feelings

Josiah Royce (1952). “The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown”

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.

Josiah Royce

Winning, Individuality, Essentials

Josiah Royce (1952). “The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown”

Philosophers have actually devoted themselves, in the main, neither to perceiving the world, nor to spinning webs of conceptual theory, but to interpreting the meaning of the civilizations which they have represented, and to attempting the interpretation of whatever minds in the universe, human or divine, they believed to be real.

Josiah Royce

Real, Philosophical, Civilization

Josiah Royce, John Edwin Smith (1988). “Josiah Royce: Selected Writings”, p.311, Paulist Press

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

Mean, Reality, Ideas

Josiah Royce (2015). “The Spirit of Modern Philosophy: An Essay in the Form of Lectures”, p.353, Courier Dover Publications

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.

Josiah Royce

Self, Giving, Firsts

Josiah Royce (1900). “The Spirit of Modern Philosophy: An Essay in the Form of Lectures”, p.351, Courier Corporation

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

Expression, Finals, Facts

Josiah Royce (1952). “The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown”