Skip to content

Error is not a mere accident of an untrained intellect, but a necessary stage or feature or moment of the expression of the truth.

— Josiah Royce Lectures on Modern Idealism (1919)

Another quote →

More quotes by Josiah Royce

In this way I suggest to you the proof which a rigid analysis of the logic of our most commonplace thought would give for the doctrine that in the world there is but one Self, and that it is his world which we all alike are truly meaning, whether we talk of one another or of Cromwell's character or of the fixed stars or of the far-off aeons of the future.

The Spirit of Modern Philosophy: An Essay in the Form of Lectures (1892)

All Josiah Royce quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Josiah Royce (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.