The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.

You can't say that religion or irreligion will give us a particular answer to the nuclear dilemma.

The Communists do have a god, the Dialectic of History, which guarantees everything that they're going to do and guarantees them victory; that's why they're fanatic.

All known existence points beyond itself.

What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.

All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.

It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges.