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William Ernest Hocking Quotes

Art is life, plus caprice Picture Quote #1

We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt Picture Quote #1

I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished Picture Quote #1

Where men cannot freely convey their thoughts to one another, no other liberty is secure Picture Quote #1

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We cannot swing up a rope that is attached only to our own belt Picture Quote #1

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt Picture Quote #1

No religion is a true religion that does not make men tingle to their finger tips with a sense of infinite hazard Picture Quote #1

Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality Picture Quote #1

And indeed, no man has found his religion until he has found that for which he must sell his goods and his life Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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Art is life, plus caprice (William Ernest Hocking Quotes) We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt (William Ernest Hocking Quotes) I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work (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 Quotes) Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished (William Ernest Hocking Quotes) Where men cannot freely convey their thoughts to one another, no other liberty is secure (William Ernest Hocking Quotes) We cannot swing up a rope that is attached only to our own belt (William Ernest Hocking Quotes) Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt (William Ernest Hocking Quotes) No religion is a true religion that does not make men tingle to their finger tips with a sense of infinite hazard (William Ernest Hocking Quotes) Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality (William Ernest Hocking Quotes) And indeed, no man has found his religion until he has found that for which he must sell his goods and his life (William Ernest Hocking Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 (William Ernest Hocking Quotes)