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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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Man you can define; but the true essence of any man, say, for instance, of Abraham Lincoln, remains the endlessly elusive and mysterious object of the biographer's interest, of the historian's comments, of popular legend, and of patriotic devotion.
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Science is never merely knowledge; it is orderly knowledge.
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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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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.
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Error is not a mere accident of an untrained intellect, but a necessary stage or feature or moment of the expression of the truth.
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Religious faith, indeed, relates to that which is above us, but it must arise from that which is within us.
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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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Josiah Royce
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Born:
November 20, 1855
Died:
September 14, 1916
(aged 60)
Bio:
Josiah Royce was an American objective idealist philosopher.
Known for:
The philosophy of loyalty (1908)
The problem of Christianity (1913)
The spirit of modern philosophy (1892)
World and the individual (1899)
The sources of religious insight (1911)
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