Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.

To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question.

History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor.

All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the dead perform whatever tricks it finds necessary for its own peace of mind.

Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept

All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.

The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.