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William Ernest Hocking

William Ernest Hocking (1873 - 1966) was an American Idealist philosopher at Harvard University. He continued the work of his philosophical teacher Josiah Royce in revising idealism to integrate and fit in empiricism, naturalism and pragmatism. Metaphysics has to make inductions from experience: "that which does not work is not true"

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We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt.
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.

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