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.
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… - William Ernest Hocking
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…
- William Ernest Hocking
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… - William Ernest Hocking
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…
Where men cannot freely convey their thoughts to one another, no other liberty is secure. - William Ernest Hocking
Where men cannot freely convey their thoughts to one another, no other liberty is secure.
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 con… - William Ernest Hocking
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 con…
We cannot swing up a rope which is attached only to our own belt. - William Ernest Hocking
We cannot swing up a rope which is attached only to our own belt.
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
Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality.
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… - William Ernest Hocking
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…
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
And indeed, no man has found his religion until he has found that for which he must sell his goods and his life.
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… - William Ernest Hocking
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…
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