“Philosophers have actually devoted themselves, in the main, neither to perceiving the world, nor to spinning webs of conceptual theory, but to interpreting the meaning of the civilizations which they have represented, and to attempting the interpretation of whatever minds in the universe, human or divine, they believed to be real.” WorldMindHumansRealUniverseDivineTheoryCivilizationPhilosophicalPhilosopherInterpretationBeing RealDevotedAttemptingSpinningInterpreting Book:Josiah Royce: Selected Writings Source: Josiah Royce: Selected Writings
“If usually the "present age" is no very long time, still, at our pleasure, or in the service of some such unity of meaning as thehistory of civilization, or the study of geology, may suggest, we may conceive the present as extending over many centuries, or over a hundred thousand years.” IfsYearsMayLongStillsAgePleasureStudyCenturyCivilizationThousandLong TimeHundredUnityThousand YearsGeologyExtending Book:The Philosophy of Josiah Royce Source: The Philosophy of Josiah Royce
