That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal expression to the life that now we experience, follows from the very fact that here nothing final or individual is found expressed.

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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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Ideas any one can mould as he wishes.

Ideas any one can mould as he wishes.

Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world...

Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world...

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...

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,...