Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.

Until now when we have started to talk about the uniqueness of America we have almost always ended by comparing ourselves to Europe. Toward her we have felt all the attraction and repulsions of Oedipus

The problem for us is less to discover the way it really is than to see the meaning of the way.

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

. . . the messiness of experience, that may be what we mean by life.

No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.