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 RoyceUnless you can find some sort of LOYALTY, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.
Josiah RoyceReligious faith, indeed, relates to that which is above us, but it must arise from that which is within us.
Josiah RoyceA self is, by its very essence, a being with a past. One must look lengthwise backwards in the stream of time in order to see theself, or its shadow, now moving with the stream, now eddying in the currents from bank to bank of its channel, and now strenuously straining onwards in the pursuit of its chosen good.
Josiah Royce