"The unique eludes us; yet we remain faithful to the ideal of it; and in spite of sense and of our merely abstract thinking, it becomes for us the most real thing in the actual world, although for us it is the elusive goal of an infinite quest."

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Source : Josiah Royce (1952). “The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown”

Josiah Royce

#Real Quotes #Unique Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine.”
“One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.”
“I have the show because I'm insecure. It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.”
“It's all right to tell a wife the brutal truth, but you've got to go sort of easy with your lady-love.”

Source : Zoë Akins (1923). “Déclassée: Daddy's gone a-hunting; and Greatness - a comedy ...”
“Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make oneâ€™s living from writing sentences. The sentence is the greatest invention of civilization. To sit all day long assembling these extraordinary strings of words is a marvelous thing. I couldnâ€™t ask for anything better. Itâ€™s as near to godliness as I can get.”

Source : "John Banville, The Art of Fiction No. 200". Interview with Belinda McKeon, www.theparisreview.org. 2009.
“This is why the social networks are successful actually, because we are living in a society where people are frustrated with living their own life but in a quiet world so thats why with the internet they are creating a new world and that is why society has changed a lot in the space of 10 years.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We referenced fictional characters as if they were people to learn from. As if real-life people were too nebulous, too private and unreal for us to understand.”

Source : Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.31, Macmillan
“If God was the owner, I was the manager. I needed to adopt a steward's mentality toward the assets He had entrusted - not given - to me. A steward manages assets for the owner's benefit. The steward carries no sense of entitlement to the assets he manages. It's his job to find out what the owner wants done with his assets, then carry out his will.”

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