But you are alone. Yet I never tell what you are. And if your face lights up my world as no other can - well, this feeling too, when viewed as the mere psychologist has to view it, appears to be simply what all the other friends report about their friends.
Josiah RoyceInterfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.
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 Royce