Josiah RoyceThinkers

A Beloved community is a community fully dedicated to the cause of loyalty, truth and reality itself.

Community is a 'second-order life' or a super-human personality. It consist of individuals in communication with a congruence of (feeling, thought and will, past memory, and future hope]. It is logically prior to the individuals and personal identities for whom it establishes social roles.

Genuine community is community defined by true loyalty, or adherence to a cause that harmonizes with the universal ideal of 'loyalty to loyalty.

A Natural community is a community defined by a predatory loyalty that tends toward the destruction of others' causes and possibilities of loyalty.

Reality is of varying degrees. The world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real.

Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

World is a whole, a life fulfilling the purposes of our ideas. It is that or it is nothing.

The World is, along with the heavens and the stars, all real, but not so damned real.