Quotes by William Ernest Hocking

William Ernest Hocking

A person who wills to have a good will, already has a good will–in its rudiments. There is solid satisfaction in knowing that the mere desire to get out of an old habit is a material advance upon the condition of submergence in that habit. The longest step toward cleanliness is made when one gains–nothing but dissatisfaction with dirt.

Desire

Knowing

Old Habits

And indeed, no man has found his religion until he has found that for which he must sell his goods and his life.

Found

Goods

Men

Art is life, plus caprice.

Art

Caprice

Life

Every social need, such as the need for friendship, must be a party to its own satisfaction: I cannot passively find my friend as a ready-made friend; a ready-made human being he may be, but his friendship for me I must help to create by my own active resolve.

May

Party

Satisfaction

For those who have only to obey, law is what the sovereign commands. For the sovereign, in the throes of deciding what he ought to command, this view of law is singularly empty of light and leading. In the dispersed sovereignty of modern states, and especially in times of rapid social change, law must look to the future as well as to history and precedent, and to what is possible and right as well as to what is actual.

Law

Light

Views

However rich we may become in knowledge of the deeper causes of historical results, we forgo all understanding of history if we forget this inner continuity,–i.e., the conscious intentions of the participants in history-making and their consciously known successes.

Historical

May

Understanding

It is right, or absolute right, that an individual should develop the powers that are in him. He may be said to have a “natural right” to become what he is capable of becoming. This is his only natural right.

Becoming

Individual

May

Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality.

Animal

Crazy

Death

Mr. Rihani, we met once a thousand years ago and we may not meet again for another thousand years.

May

Mets

Years

No religion is a true religion that does not make men tingle to their finger tips with a sense of infinite hazard.

Doe

Hazards

Men

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Giving

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Hazards

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Hurt

Ideas

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Justice Of God

Knowing

Law

Learning

Legal Rights

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Quotes by William Ernest Hocking

William Ernest Hocking

And indeed, no man has found his religion until he has found that for which he must sell his goods and his life.

Art is life, plus caprice.

Every social need, such as the need for friendship, must be a party to its own satisfaction: I cannot passively find my friend as a ready-made friend; a ready-made human being he may be, but his friendship for me I must help to create by my own active resolve.

However rich we may become in knowledge of the deeper causes of historical results, we forgo all understanding of history if we forget this inner continuity,–i.e., the conscious intentions of the participants in history-making and their consciously known successes.

It is right, or absolute right, that an individual should develop the powers that are in him. He may be said to have a “natural right” to become what he is capable of becoming. This is his only natural right.

Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality.

Mr. Rihani, we met once a thousand years ago and we may not meet again for another thousand years.

No religion is a true religion that does not make men tingle to their finger tips with a sense of infinite hazard.

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