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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
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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
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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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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
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So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed for the whole, and are unique.
- Josiah Royce
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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
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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
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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
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The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else remained the same, but had that deed of treason not been done at all.
- Josiah Royce
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For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as expressing a meaning.
- Josiah Royce
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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
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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
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Ideas any one can mould as he wishes.
- Josiah Royce
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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
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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
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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
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#Nothing
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