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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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
That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal expression to the life that now we experience, follows from the very fact that here nothing final or individual is found expressed.
Josiah Royce
For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as expressing a meaning.
Josiah Royce
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
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.
Josiah Royce
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