Man is both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind and far-seeing. He stands at the juncture of nature and spirit; and is involved in both freedom and necessity.

To be religious is not to feel, but to be.

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.

We have had to learn that history is neither a God nor a redeemer.

For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.

Toleration of people who differ in convictions and habits requires a residual awareness of the complexity of truth and the possibility of opposing view having some light on one or the other facet of a many-sided truth.

The significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all law.