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Josiah Royce (/rɔɪs/; November 20, 1855 – September 14, 1916) was an American objective idealist philosopher.

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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.

Individuality, Consciousness, Individualism, Present, Consists, Know

Philosophers have actually devoted themselves, in the main, neither to perceiving the world, nor to spinning webs of conceptual theory, but to interpreting the meaning of the civilizations which they have represented, and to attempting the interpretation of whatever minds in the universe, human or divine, they believed to be real.

Real, Philosophical, Civilization, Minds, Believed, Represented

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.

Lonely, Home, Heart, Foes, Barriers, Waves

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

Heart, Life, Reality, Take, World

I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see.

Stars, Real, Teaching, Heavens, Teach

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.

Essential, Essentials, God, Individuality, Win, Winning

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

Divine, God, God Life, Harmony, Life, Unique

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.

Community, Dangerous, Mind, Organization, Picnic

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

Death, Learning, Like, Love, Loving, Thinking

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

Active, Loyalty, Loyalty In Business, Sort, Unity, Unless

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.

Inspire, Longing, Longs, True, World

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.

Feelings, Patterns, People, World

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.

Endlessly, Essence, Men, Object, Patriotic, Remains

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.

Conceptual, Down, Intuition, Land, Pragmatic, Tools

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

Men, Ongoing, Philosophy, Real, 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.

Years, Civilization, Long, Pleasure, Age, Conceive

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.

Feeling, Feelings, Friends, Light, Viewed, Views

The world is a progressively realized community of interpretation.

Community, Interpretation, Progressively, Realized, World

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.

Commit, Error, Errors, Make, Men, Say

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.

Fashion, Frequently, Prominent, Seeks, Swag, Views

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