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.


Ch. XII : The Will as a Maker of Truth, p. 140 - The Meaning of God in Human Experience (1912)

William Ernest Hocking Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...