The clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas.

God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world - and man.

Even by proving that a certain view is indispensable for living well, one proves merely that the view in question is a salutary myth: one does not prove it to be true.

Nothing ought to be said or done which could create the impression that unbiased reconsideration of the most elementary premises of philosophy is a merely academic or historical affair.

By realizing that we are ignorant of the most important things, we realize at the same time that the most important thing for us, or the one thing needful, is quest for knowledge of the most important things or quest for wisdom.

Education, they [philosophers] felt, is the only answer to the always pressing question, to the political question par excellence, of how to reconcile order which is not oppression with freedom which is not license.

God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible.