Josiah Royce
Josiah Royce
Josiah Roycewas an American objective idealist philosopher...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth20 November 1855
CountryUnited States of America
unique strive needed
So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed for the whole, and are unique.
unique harmony god-life
God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life.
mean unique class
By an individual being, whatever one's metaphysical doctrine, one means an unique being, that is, a being which is alone of its own type, or is such that no other of its class exists.
unique men done
If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know, some other man might not have done, I am utterly unable to discover the certainly unique deed.
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.
case evil fullest innocent life triumph
It is not those innocent of evil who are fullest of the life of God, but those who in their own case have experienced the triumph over evil