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.
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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.Josiah Royce
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.
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For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as expressing a meaning.
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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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No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already.
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