For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as expressing a meaning.
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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.Josiah Royce
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.
Josiah Royce
Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living
Josiah Royce
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.
Josiah Royce
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.
Josiah Royce
Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning.
Josiah Royce
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