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 idle, therefore, to observe reflexively that in that very Thought, one has separated himself from them, and is no longer that which empirically he still sees himself to be.


Ch. XIV : The Need of an Absolute, p. 198 - The Meaning of God in Human Experience (1912)

William Ernest Hocking Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...