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 Read 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 Read 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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as expressing a meaning. Josiah Royce Read Quote
God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life. Josiah Royce Read 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 Read 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 Read 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 Read Quote
