Josiah Royce
Josiah Royce
Josiah Roycewas an American objective idealist philosopher...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth20 November 1855
CountryUnited States of America
conscious experience figures personal poor rational relation universal
For by such poor figures I may, in passing, symbolize that really rational relation of our personal experience to universal conscious experience.
life
It is an old story, this life of ours. There is nothing new under our sun. Nothing new, that is, for us, as we now feel and think.
men errors commit
No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already.
mean reality ideas
So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.
Ideas any one can mould as he wishes.