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 knowledge of the temporal order. – 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
Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the will, the will shall consent to be strenuous in its industry. – Josiah Royce