We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes can see; and they, the true individuals, - they belong not to this world of our merely human sense and thought.
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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
So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed for the whole, and are unique.
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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.
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God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life.
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Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.
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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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