That's why history is not an answer to our problem, because history complicates, enlarges every problem of human existence. Now, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries didn't believe this.

There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that's one of the great achievements.

I wouldn't judge a man by the presuppositions of his life, but only by the fruits of his life. And the fruits - the relevant fruits - are, I'd say, a sense of charity, a sense of proportion, a sense of justice.

Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.

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

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.