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 RoyceFor the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as expressing a meaning.
Josiah RoyceMen accept without questioning that this world is real and important and worthwhile. This is faith. Philosophy is the ongoing questioning of this faith.
Josiah RoyceSo, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.
Josiah RoyceOnly 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