The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else remained the same, but had that deed of treason not been done at all.

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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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...