A man can do his best only by confidently seeking (and perpetually missing) an unattainable perfection..

The English mind is intelligent rather than intellectual. The French are intellectual in the sense that the intellect is emancipated and left free to….

Humanitarianism needs no apology, even when its objects are Russians or Communists. Unless we recover that concern and feel it toward all men without….

As a reformer the liberal is dissatisfied with things as they are because they violate his exceptionally tender conscience.... Liberalism does not ad….

This insistence on "having his say upon the universe" is the profoundest motive of William James thinking as well as of his filial gratitude..

What is needed in the present plight of mankind is not more science but a change of heart that shall move mankind to devote to constructive and peace….

The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy what he has earned, but the ;thesis that the exerci….

If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, it is not merely because evil deeds may be performed in the name of patriotism, but because patrioti….

Indeed I am inclined to go so far as to say that the one cause for which one may properly make war is the cause of peace..

I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all..

Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind..

Ignorance deprives people of freedom because they do not know what alternatives there are. It is impossible to choose to do what one has never "heard….