The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart.
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So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.Josiah Royce
And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness, all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning.
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I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see.
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For by such poor figures I may, in passing, symbolize that really rational relation of our personal experience to universal conscious experience.
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Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning.
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