Josiah Royce
Josiah Royce
Josiah Roycewas an American objective idealist philosopher...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth20 November 1855
CountryUnited States of America
mean reality ideas
So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.
stars real teaching
I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see.
real philosophical civilization
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 philosophy men
Men accept without questioning that this world is real and important and worthwhile. This is faith. Philosophy is the ongoing questioning of this faith.
heart reality world
Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.
real unique thinking
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.
loving thinking
Thinking is like loving or dying. Each of us must do it for ourselves.
remained
The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else remained the same, but had that deed of treason not been done at all.
Ideas any one can mould as he wishes.
conscious experience figures personal poor rational relation universal
For by such poor figures I may, in passing, symbolize that really rational relation of our personal experience to universal conscious experience.
cruelty deed due enter fitting human love loyal oppose shall time tragic treason
No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement.
believe beloved whenever
As for you, my beloved friend, I loyally believe in your uniqueness; but whenever I try to tell to you wherein it consists, I helplessly describe only a type.
life
It is an old story, this life of ours. There is nothing new under our sun. Nothing new, that is, for us, as we now feel and think.
cause despite evil far loyalty
It is an evil cause in so far as, despite the loyalty that it arouses in me, it is destructive of loyalty in the world of my fellows.