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.

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

Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

No nation can say, 'We will capitulate to tyranny rather than accept a speculative fate - to accept an absolute fate in alternative to a speculative one' - no nation can do that.

Now we're living in a nuclear age, and the science that was supposed to be automatically for human welfare has become a nuclear - a science that gives us nuclear weapons. This is the ironic character of human history, and of human existence, which I can only explain, if I say so, in Biblical terms. Now I don't mean by this reason that I will accept every interpretation of Christianity that's derived from the Bible as many people wouldn't accept my interpretation. But that's what it means for me.