William Ernest Hocking

“That which is not worth doing, is not worth doing well.”

“There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.”

“The most civilized people are those who do not carry walls within themselves.”

“What a man can be, he must be.”

“The most precious things in life are not those you get for money.”

“Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.”

“The self is a society.”

“Education is the transmission of civilization.”

“Religion is the first and the last of the human needs.”

“The right to be happy is a right which we claim for ourselves, and which we should grant to others.”

“The state is the servant of its citizens, and not their master.”

“A man who has never been hungry may have many fine ideas about food, but he will never know its reality.”