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Josiah Royce Quotes on Virtue

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 virtue, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Josiah Royce:

    “Loyalty is the willing and practical and thoroughgoing devotion of a person to a cause.”

  • Attributed to Josiah Royce:

    “We become individuals through our loyalties.”

  • Attributed to Josiah Royce:

    “No one finds himself simply by trying to be himself.”

  • Attributed to Josiah Royce:

    “What you think is what you are; what you do is what you become.”