Josiah Royce

“The lonely self is an illusion.”

“The world is a community of interpretation.”

“What is, is what is consciously known, and what is not consciously known has for us no being.”

“Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.”

“Error is simply a partial truth that pretends to be the whole truth.”

“The self is not a thing, but a meaning.”

“Man, the interpreter of Nature, is himself a part of the meaning of the world.”

“Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.”

“An idea is a plan of action.”

“Find a cause that is good, and stick to it.”

“To be is to be interpreted.”

“The world is just my idea.”

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

“A philosophy of life is a man's quest for the unity of his own experience.”

“My life means nothing, either theoretically or practically, unless I am a member of a community.”