I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see.

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As for you, my beloved friend, I loyally believe in your uniqueness; but whenever I...

As for you, my beloved friend, I loyally believe in your uniqueness; but whenever I...

No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human...

No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human...

Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and...

Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and...

God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and...

God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and...

Thinking is like loving or dying. Each of us must do it for ourselves.

Thinking is like loving or dying. Each of us must do it for ourselves.

If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know,...

If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know,...

Ideas any one can mould as he wishes.

Ideas any one can mould as he wishes.

And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness, all our lives win...

And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness, all our lives win...

The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been...

The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been...

Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a...

Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a...

The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the...

The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the...

This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made...

This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made...

We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo,...

We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo,...

For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as...

For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as...

For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality...

For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality...

So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed...

So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed...

I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the...

I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the...

But you are alone. Yet I never tell what you are. And if your face...

But you are alone. Yet I never tell what you are. And if your face...

So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if...

So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if...

That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal...

That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal...