Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.
ATTRIBUTION:
Josiah Royce (1855–1916), U.S. philosopher. Originally published 1901. The World and the Individual, vol. II, lect. III, repr. In The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce, p. 13 (1952).
