We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes can see; and they, the true individuals, - they belong not to this world of our merely human sense and thought.
Josiah RoyceThe unique eludes us; yet we remain faithful to the ideal of it; and in spite of sense and of our merely abstract thinking, it becomes for us the most real thing in the actual world, although for us it is the elusive goal of an infinite quest.
Josiah RoyceAnd 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.
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 Royce