Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will. — Josiah Royce
And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness, all our lives win in our union — Josiah Royce
As for you, my beloved friend, I loyally believe in your uniqueness; but whenever I try to tell — Josiah Royce
God is one, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life. — Josiah Royce
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
But you are alone. Yet I never tell what you are. And if your face lights up my world as no other can — Josiah Royce
For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. — Josiah Royce
God too longs; and because the absolute life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings — Josiah Royce
I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the feelings of other people. — Josiah Royce
For the absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as expressing a meaning. — Josiah Royce
If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know, some other man might not have done — Josiah Royce
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
Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image — Josiah Royce
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
No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. — Josiah Royce
That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal expression to the — Josiah Royce
Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually — Josiah Royce
So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed for the whole, and are unique. — Josiah Royce