Josiah Royce Quotes

“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.”

“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.”

“The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams.”

“Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations.”

“The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled.”

“Thinking is like loving and dying - each of us must do it for himself.”

“Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.”

“Religious faith indeed relates to that which is above us but it must arise from that which is within us.”

“Religious faith indeed relates to that which is above us but it must arise from that which is within us.”

“Unless you can find some sort of loyalty you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.”