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Quotes by Josiah Royce

Josiah Royce

“Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living”

“It is not those innocent of evil who are fullest of the life of God, but those who in their own case have experienced the triumph over evil”

“Thinking is like loving or dying. Each of us must do it for ourselves.”

“Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life”

“Do not let loyalty and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart”

“The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love, do not require coupons.”

“Youve got to give loyalty down, if you want loyalty up.”

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

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

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

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

That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal expression to the life that now we experience, follows from the very fact that here nothing final or individual is found expressed.

The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart.