As for you, my beloved frie... by Josiah Royce, an American Philosopher

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“As for you, my beloved friend, I loyally believe in your uniqueness; but whenever I try to tell to you wherein it consists, I helplessly describe only a type.”

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Name: Josiah Royce

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Nov 20, 1855

Date of Death: Sep 14, 1916

Profession: Philosopher

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Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.

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That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal expression to the life that now we experience, follows from the very fact that here nothing final or individual is found expressed.

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Ideas any one can mould as he wishes.

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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.

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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.

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