"Human life taken merely as it flows, viewed merely as it passes by in time and is gone, is indeed a lost river of experience that plunges down the mountains of youth and sinks in the deserts of age. Its significance comes solely through its relations to the air and the ocean and the great deeps of universal experience. For by such poor figures I may, in passing, symbolize that really rational relation of our personal experience to universal conscious experience…."
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Philosophers from the United StatesPeople from CaliforniaUniversity of California, Berkeley alumniUniversity of California, Berkeley facultyFellows of the British Academy
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Royce 1908 Near the end of The Philosophy of Loyalty
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Josiah Royce
Josiah Royce (November 20, 1855 – September 14, 1916) was an American objective idealist philosopher.
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