William Ernest Hocking Quotes

• 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.

  William Ernest Hocking

  Old Habits, Knowing, Desire

  William Ernest Hocking, Ph.D. (1912). “The Meaning of God in Human Experience”

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• 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.

  William Ernest Hocking

  Views, Law, Light

  "Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights". Book by William Ernest Hocking, Preface (20 May 1926), p. vii, 1926.

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• We cannot swing up a rope which is attached only to our own belt.

  William Ernest Hocking

  Inspiración, Enseñanza, Aprendizaje

  "A William Ernest Hocking reader: with commentary".

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• 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.

  William Ernest Hocking

  Party, May, Satisfaction

  William Ernest Hocking, Ph.D. (1912). “The Meaning of God in Human Experience”

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• 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.

  William Ernest Hocking

  May, Becoming, Individual

  "Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights". Book by William Ernest Hocking. Ch. VII, Natural Right, § 33, p. 74, 1926.

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• Where men cannot freely convey their thoughts to one another, no other liberty is secure.

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  Hombres, Libertad, Libertario

  William Ernest Hocking (1948). “Freedom of the Press”

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

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  Men, Found, Goods

  William Ernest Hocking, Ph.D. (1912). “The Meaning of God in Human Experience”

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

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  Death, Crazy, Animal

  William Ernest Hocking (1937). “Thoughts on Death and Life”

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• Principle I: Legal rights are presumptive rights.

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  Rights, Principles, Legal Rights

  "Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights". Book by William Ernest Hocking, Ch. VI : Presumptive Rights, p. 58, 1926.

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• La comunidad pura no interesa a ninguna voluntad; pero una comunidad que persigue un bien común interesa sobremanera a todas las voluntades; y lo que aquí hemos dicho es que cualquiera que sea la naturaleza de ese bien común... debe contener el desarrollo de las facultades individuales, como condición previa de todos los demás bienes.

  William Ernest Hocking

  Community, Matter, Individual Power

  "Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights". Book by William Ernest Hocking. Ch. VII, Natural Right, § 35, p. 77, 1926.

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

  William Ernest Hocking

  Years, May, Mets

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• 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.

  William Ernest Hocking

  Historical, Understanding, May

  William Ernest Hocking (1916). “The meaning of God in human experience: philosophic study of religion”

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• Donde existe la ambición moral, existe el derecho. Y la propia ambición moral debe presumirse presente en el subconsciente, aun cuando el yo consciente parezca rechazarla, mientras la sociedad disponga de recursos para ponerla en acción; del mismo modo que el salvavidas presume que existe vida en el ahogado hasta que ha agotado sus recursos para recuperar la respiración.

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  Ambition, Men, Self

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• Nothing is more evident, I venture to think, as a result of two or three thousand years of social philosophizing, than that society must live and thrive by way of the native impulses of individual human beings.

  William Ernest Hocking

  Pensar, Dos, Años

  "Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights". Book by William Ernest Hocking, Ch. VII, Natural Right, § 30, p. 68, 1926.

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• Art is life, plus caprice.

  William Ernest Hocking

  Life, Art, Caprice

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• We are driven to confess that we actually care more for religion than we do for religious theories and ideas: and in merely making that distinction between religion and its doctrine-elements, have we not already relegated the latter to an external and subordinate position? Have we not asserted that "religion itself" has some other essence or constitution than mere idea or thought?

  William Ernest Hocking

  Religious, Essence, Ideas

  "The Meaning of God in Human Experience". Book by William Ernest Hocking, Ch. IV : The Retirement of the Intellect, p. 38, 1912.

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• Sólo el hombre que tiene suficiente bondad en sí mismo para sentir la justicia de la pena puede ser castigado; los demás sólo pueden ser perjudicados.

  William Ernest Hocking

  Hurt, Men, Justice Of God

  William Ernest Hocking (1956). “The Coming World Civilization”

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• Without good-will, no man has any presumptive right, except the right or opportunity to change his will, so long as there is hope of it.

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  Oportunidad, Hombres, Largo

  "Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Right". Book by William Ernest Hocking. Ch. VII, Natural Right, § 32, p. 73, 1926.

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• This merely formal conceiving of the facts of one's own wretchedness is at the same time a departure from them--placing them in the object. It is not idle, therefore, to observe reflexively that in that very Thought, one has separated himself from them, and is no longer that which empirically he still sees himself to be.

  William Ernest Hocking

  Facts, Departure, Formal

  William Ernest Hocking, Ph.D. (1912). “The Meaning of God in Human Experience”

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• Principio III: Los derechos presuntos son las condiciones en las que normalmente se desarrollan las facultades individuales.

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  Rights, Individual Power, Principles

  "Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights". Book by William Ernest Hocking, Ch. VII, Natural Right, p. 68, 1926.

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• The only thing that can set aside a law as wrong is a better law, or an idea of a better law. And the only thing that an give a law the quality of better or worse is the concrete result which it promotes or fails to promote.

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  Law, Ideas, Giving

  "Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights". Book by William Ernest Hocking. Ch. VII, Natural Right, § 35, p. 76, 1926.

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• Principle II: The presumptions of the law are creative presumptions:;: they are aimed at conditions to be brought about, and only for that reason ignore conditions which exist.

  William Ernest Hocking

  Law, Creative, Principles

  "Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights". Book by William Ernest Hocking, Ch. VI : Presumptive Rights, § 24, p. 62, 1926.

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• 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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  Men, Doe, Hazards

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• What our view of the effectiveness of religion in history does at once make evident as to its nature is--first, its necessary distinction; second, its necessary supremacy. These characters though external have been so essential to its fruitfulness, as to justify the statement that without them religion is not religion. A merged religion and a negligible or subordinate religion are no religion.

  William Ernest Hocking

  Character, Views, Effectiveness

  William Ernest Hocking (1916). “The meaning of God in human experience: philosophic study of religion”

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