"William Ernest Hocking" was an United States/American idealist philosopher at Harvard University. He continued the work of his philosophical teacher Josiah Royce in revising idealism to integrate and fit into empiricism, Naturalism (philosophy)/naturalism and pragmatism. He said that metaphysics has to make inductions from experience: "that which does not work is not true." His major field of study was the philosophy of religion, but his 22 books included discussions of philosophy and human rights, world politics, freedom of the press, the philosophical psychology of human nature; education; and more. In 1958 he served as president of the Metaphysical Society of America.

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Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished.

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

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