A crowd, whether it be a dangerous mob, or an amiably joyous gathering at a picnic is not … - Josiah Royce

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I never stopped working, but I did let my contract run out. And I didn't really actively pursue it.

Josiah Royce

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

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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.

Bank, Look, Moving, Past, Self

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

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

The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is only preparatory. This second aspect is the one which from Kant, until the present time, has formed the deeper problem of thought.

Firsts, Gives, Giving, Kant, Self, Time

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.

Experience, Expression, Facts, Finals, Follows, Nothing

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