God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world.
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 RoyceFor the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as expressing a 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