Occupation: Historian Birth: April 14, 1889 Death: October 22, 1975
I regard the state of which I am a citizen as a public utility, like the organization that supplies me with water, gas, and electricity. I feel that ….
The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as i….
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and sec….
Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or late….
The penalty of affluence is that it cuts one off from the common lot, common experience, and common fellowship. In a sense it outlaws one automatical….
The course of human history consists of a series of encounters between individual human beings and God in which each man and woman or child, in turn,….
I believe that a religious conversion is the only way to stimulate the peoples of the industrialized nations to be willing to make sacrifices for the….
We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I als….
History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff - well, it might as well be dea….
Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in n….
I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills..
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal its….
Nothing fails like success when you rely on it too much..
Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them, they have ensured that I shall work hard, but they cannot ensure that one shall ….
We shall have to share out the fruits of technology among the whole of mankind. The notion that the direct and immediate producers of the fruits of t….
Immaturity means self-centeredness, inability to compromise, to rise above hurt feelings, to postpone immediate pleasures in favor of future benefits….
Human dignity can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in which our actions are governed by com….
Man's true end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him for ever..
Love's way of dealing with us is different from conscience's way. Conscience commands; love inspires. What we do out of love, we do because we want….
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must sho….
Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if ….