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 RoyceI teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see.
Josiah RoyceA 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 RoyceGod is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life.
Josiah Royce