Josiah Royce Quotes
Josiah Royce was an American philosopher and the principal American defender of objective idealism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A colleague of William James at Harvard, he engaged in lifelong dialogue with pragmatism while developing his own absolute idealism in The World and the Individual and his social philosophy in The Philosophy of Loyalty. The quotes below are attributed to Josiah Royce, organized by topic.
Josiah Royce on God
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Attributed to Josiah Royce:
“The world is the embodiment of a spiritual order, the expression of an Absolute self.”
Josiah Royce on Mind
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Attributed to Josiah Royce:
“No one finds himself simply by trying to be himself.”
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Attributed to Josiah Royce:
“What you think is what you are; what you do is what you become.”
Josiah Royce on Politics
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Attributed to Josiah Royce:
“True community is built upon shared interpretation.”
Josiah Royce on Virtue
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Attributed to Josiah Royce:
“Loyalty is the willing and practical and thoroughgoing devotion of a person to a cause.”
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Attributed to Josiah Royce:
“We become individuals through our loyalties.”