Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about Josiah Royce
Josiah Royce Quotes
33 Sourced Quotes
Source
Report...
Philosophers have actually devoted themselves, in the main, neither to perceiving the world, nor to spinning webs of conceptual theory, but to interpreting the meaning of the civilizations which they have represented, and to attempting the interpretation of whatever minds in the universe, human or divine, they believed to be real.
Josiah Royce
Source
Report...
By an individual being, whatever one's metaphysical doctrine, one means an unique being, that is, a being which is alone of its own type, or is such that no other of its class exists.
Josiah Royce
Source
Report...
Loyalty is a good for the loyal man; but it may be mischievous for those whom his cause assails.
Josiah Royce
Source
Report...
The control of natural phenomena, which through the sciences, men have attained, grows daily vaster and more detailed, and in its details more assured.
Josiah Royce
Source
Report...
A crowd, whether it be a dangerous mob, or an amiably joyous gathering at a picnic is not a community. It has a mind, but no institutions, no organizations, no coherent unity, no history, no traditions.
Josiah Royce
Source
Report...
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
Source
Report...
Only the more uncompromising of the mystics still seek for knowledge in a silent land of absolute intuition, where the intellect finally lays down its conceptual tools, and rests from its pragmatic labors, while its works do not follow it, but are simply forgotten, and are as if they never had been.
Josiah Royce
Source
Report...
For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as expressing a meaning.
Josiah Royce
1
2
Quote of the day
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
Jean Kerr
Josiah Royce
Creative Commons
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)
Josiah Royce on Wikipedia
Josiah Royce works on Gutenberg Project
Josiah Royce works on Wikisource
Suggest an edit or a new quote
American Philosopher Quotes
Philosopher Quotes
19th-century Philosopher Quotes
Related People
William James
American Psychologist
Charles Sanders Peirce
American Mathematician
George Santayana
Spanish Philosopher
William Ernest Hocking
American Philosopher
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes