Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the will, the will shall consent to be strenuous in its industry.

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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...

Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you...

Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you...

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...

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 lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and...

The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him 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.

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...

God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of...

God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of...

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...

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...

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...

Ideas any one can mould as he wishes.

Ideas any one can mould as he wishes.

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,...

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...

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...

No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit...

No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit...

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...

I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all...

I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all...

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,...