I cannot worship the abstractions of virtue: she only charms me when she addresses herself to my heart, speaks through the love from which she spring….

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it..

The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in socia….

Despotism, which we regard with abhorrence, is rather too plausible in decaying feudal, agrarian, pastoral societies. That's why we must expect to ha….

As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command..

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems..

Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others..

I think I have one answer, that is partly religious and partly secular; and that is to say, we ought to at least recognize that we and the Russians a….

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice..

Men have never been individually self-sufficient..

It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man's belief in justice that makes democracy possible..

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another..

Ultimately freedom is necessary for a society, because every despotic society - for instance, the Russian society - lives on the basis of a rather im….

I know that the Communists are atheistic and godless, but I don't think that that's what's primarily the matter with them. What's primarily the matte….

All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity..

Forgiveness is the final form of love..

All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace..

To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible..

I might say that the debate between atheists and Christians is rather stale to me, because the Christians say, "You must be a Christian, or you must ….

My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox text: "By their fru….

History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life..