27 quotes
And indeed, no man has found his religion until he has found that for which he must sell his goods and his life.
The Meaning of God in Human Experience (1912)
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.
The Coming World Civilization (1956)
Without good-will, no man has any presumptive right, except the right or opportunity to change his will, so long as there is hope of it.
Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights (1926)
Principle I : Legal rights are presumptive rights.
Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights (1926)
For maturity is marked by the preference to be defeated rather than have a subjective success.
The Meaning of God in Human Experience (1912)
Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality.
The Meaning of Immortality in Human Experience (1957)
There can be no valid worship except that in which man is involuntarily bent by the presence of the Most Real, beyond his will.
The Meaning of God in Human Experience (1912)
Law deals not with actual individuals, but with individuals artificially defined.
Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights (1926)
A merged religion and a negligible or subordinate religion are no religion.
The Meaning of God in Human Experience (1912)
Principle II : The presumptions of the law are creative presumptions : they are aimed at conditions to be brought about, and only for that reason ignore conditions which exist.
Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights (1926)
For the skeptic finds that he also was in search of objective truth: and that the absolute truth of his statement is irrelevant to his quest. Whence his skepticism toward objective truth remains unanswered.
The Meaning of God in Human Experience (1912)
Principle III : Presumptive rights are the conditions under which individual powers normally develop.
Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights (1926)
There is, then, in these matters some absolute finding in the seeking: salvation is, to seek salvation, for in seeking it one has already abandoned mortality and his sin.
The Meaning of God in Human Experience (1912)
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.
The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Inspirational Quotes (2005)
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 of law is singularly empty of light and leading.
Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights (1926)
Religion is bound up in the difference between the sense of ignorance and the sense of mystery: the former means, "I know not"; the latter means "I know not; but it is known."
The Meaning of God in Human Experience (1912)
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.
Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights (1926)
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 he is capable of becoming. This is his only natural right.
Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights (1926)
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.
Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights (1926)
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; a ready-made human being he may be, but his friendship for me I must help to create by my own active resolve.
The Meaning of God in Human Experience (1912)