Josiah Royce Quotes

Quotes about:

• Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

  Josiah Royce

  Love, Death, Learning

  42 Copy quote

• Unless you can find some sort of LOYALTY, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.

  Josiah Royce

  Loyalty, Unity, Loyalty In Business

  Josiah Royce (1995). “The Philosophy of Loyalty”, p.23, Vanderbilt University Press

  51 Copy quote

• A crowd, whether it be a dangerous mob, or an amiably joyous gathering at a picnic is not a community. It has a mind, but no institutions, no organizations, no coherent unity, no history, no traditions.

  Josiah Royce

  Organization, Community, Mind

  Josiah Royce, John Edwin Smith (1988). “Josiah Royce: Selected Writings”, p.272, Paulist Press

  13 Copy quote

• The world is a
  progressively realized community of interpretation.

  Josiah Royce

  Community, World, Interpretation

  Josiah Royce, John Edwin Smith (1988). “Josiah Royce: Selected Writings”, p.324, Paulist Press

  12 Copy quote

• Religious faith, indeed, relates to that which is above us, but it must arise from that which is within us.

  Josiah Royce

  Religious, Arise, Religious Faith

  Josiah Royce (1911). “William James and Other Essays on the Philosophy of Life”

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Order, Musical, Phrases

  Josiah Royce, John Joseph McDermott, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (2005). “The Basic Writings of Josiah Royce: Culture, philosophy, and religion”, p.633, Fordham Univ Press

  19 Copy quote

• Life involves passions, faiths, doubts, and courage.

  Josiah Royce

  Inspirational, Passion, Doubt

  Josiah Royce (2015). “The Spirit of Modern Philosophy: An Essay in the Form of Lectures”, p.1, Courier Dover Publications

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Hints, Glimpse, Life Is

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

  22 Copy quote

• A self is, by its very essence, a being with a past. One must look lengthwise backwards in the stream of time in order to see theself, or its shadow, now moving with the stream, now eddying in the currents from bank to bank of its channel, and now strenuously straining onwards in the pursuit of its chosen good.

  Josiah Royce

  Moving, Past, Self

  Josiah Royce, John Edwin Smith (1988). “Josiah Royce: Selected Writings”, p.274, Paulist Press

  4 Copy quote

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

  Josiah Royce

  Unique, Harmony, God Life

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

  7 Copy quote

• Loyalty is a good for the loyal man; but it may be mischievous for those whom his cause assails.

  Josiah Royce

  Loyalty, Men, May

  Josiah Royce, John Joseph McDermott, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (2005). “The Basic Writings of Josiah Royce: Logic, loyalty, and community”, p.898, Fordham Univ Press

  10 Copy quote

• Memory and hope constantly incite us to the extensions of the self which play so large a part in our daily life.

  Josiah Royce

  Memories, Self, Play

  Josiah Royce, John K. Roth (1982). “The Philosophy of Josiah Royce”, p.373, Hackett Publishing

  10 Copy quote

• 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

  Eye, Individuality, World

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

  8 Copy quote

• Men accept without questioning that this world is real and important and worthwhile. This is faith. Philosophy is the ongoing questioning of this faith.

  Josiah Royce

  Philosophy, Real, Men

  4 Copy quote

• The unique eludes us; yet we remain faithful to the ideal of it; and in spite of sense and of our merely abstract thinking, it becomes for us the most real thing in the actual world, although for us it is the elusive goal of an infinite quest.

  Josiah Royce

  Real, Unique, Thinking

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

  10 Copy quote

• 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

  People, Feelings, World

  8 Copy quote

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

  Josiah Royce

  Heart, Reality, World

  Josiah Royce (2015). “The Spirit of Modern Philosophy: An Essay in the Form of Lectures”, p.352, Courier Dover Publications

  9 Copy quote

• 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

  Stars, Real, Teaching

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  Lonely, Home, Heart

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

  9 Copy quote

• By an individual being, whatever one's metaphysical doctrine, one means an unique being, that is, a being which is alone of its own type, or is such that no other of its class exists.

  Josiah Royce

  Mean, Unique, Class

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

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  Inspire, World, Longing

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

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Unique, Men, Looks

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

  9 Copy quote

• For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as expressing a meaning.

  Josiah Royce

  Life Is, Individual, Knows

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

  4 Copy quote

• Only the more uncompromising of the mystics still seek for knowledge in a silent land of absolute intuition, where the intellect finally lays down its conceptual tools, and rests from its pragmatic labors, while its works do not follow it, but are simply forgotten, and are as if they never had been.

  Josiah Royce

  Land, Intuition, Tools

  Josiah Royce (1913). “The Problem of Christianity: The real world and the Christian ideas”

  4 Copy quote

• Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the will, the will shall consent to be strenuous in its industry.

  Josiah Royce

  Respect, Agreement, World

  Josiah Royce (2015). “The Spirit of Modern Philosophy: An Essay in the Form of Lectures”, p.352, Courier Dover Publications

  8 Copy quote

Page 1 of 2

← Prev

1

2

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin