Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself. Josiah Royce More Quotes by Josiah Royce More Quotes From Josiah Royce Unless you can find some sort of LOYALTY, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living. Josiah Royce loyalty-in-business unity loyalty 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 phrases musical order The world is a Josiah Royce interpretation community world 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 community organization mind 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 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 individuality eye world Memory and hope constantly incite us to the extensions of the self which play so large a part in our daily life. Josiah Royce self play memories Loyalty is a good for the loyal man; but it may be mischievous for those whom his cause assails. Josiah Royce loyalty may men 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 unique class mean 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 self past moving 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 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 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 essence men 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 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 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 individualism individuality consciousness God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life. Josiah Royce god-life harmony unique 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 feelings people world 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 civilization long years 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 unique real thinking
