Josiah Royce Quotes on Knowledge
Josiah Royce was an American philosopher and the principal American defender of objective idealism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This page collects quotes attributed to Josiah Royce on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Josiah Royce:
“True community is built upon shared interpretation.”
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“Lectures on Modern Idealism (1919), p. 79”
Error is not a mere accident of an untrained intellect, but a necessary stage or feature or moment of the expression of the truth. -
“(Royce 1913) In The Problem of Christianity”
the real world is the Community of Interpretation… If the interpretation is a reality, and if it truly interprets the whole of reality, then the community reaches its goal [i.e., a complete representation of Being], and the real world includes its own interpreter -
“Royce 1908 Near the end of The Philosophy of Loyalty”
Human life taken merely as it flows, viewed merely as it passes by in time and is gone, is indeed a lost river of experience that plunges down the mountains of youth and sinks in the deserts of age. Its significance comes solely through its relations to the air and the ocean and the great deeps of universal experience. For by such poor figures I may, in passing, symbolize that really rational rela