My own mind is my own church.

My own mind is my own church.

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

The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables us to control, not society, but ourselves - a much more important thing; it prepares us to live more humanely in the present and to meet rather than to foretell the future.

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

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

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