A 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,…

- Josiah Royce

Life involves passions, faiths, doubts, and courage.

- Josiah Royce

Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning.

- Josiah Royce

Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledg…

- Josiah Royce

Religious faith, indeed, relates to that which is above us, but it must arise from that which is within us.

- Josiah Royce

A 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 organiz…

- Josiah Royce

The world is a progressively realized community of interpretation.

- Josiah Royce

Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

- Josiah Royce

Unless you can find some sort of LOYALTY, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.

- Josiah Royce