54 Quotes by Josiah Royce

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 civilization which they have represented.

Ideas any one can mould as he wishes.

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

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.

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.

Thinking is like loving or dying. Each of us must do it for ourselves.

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.

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.

For by such poor figures I may, in passing, symbolize that really rational relation of our personal experience to universal conscious experience.