When a church reaches up beyond its group and tries to enforce its standards upon a society that doesn't accept these standards, and perhaps for good reason, perhaps for bad reason, but anyway this is the problem we face in pluralistic society, that not necessarily every standard that every church tries to enforce upon the society is from the society's standpoint a good standard.

For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.

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

The Jews were the money-lenders of the Middle Ages so there's a stereotype of the slightly or more than slightly dishonest business man and this stereotype covers and obscures all the facts.

The more complex the world situation becomes, the more scientific and rational analysis you have to have, the less you can do with simple good will and sentiment.

All this talk about atheistic materialism and God-fearing American I think is beside the point; it's a rather vapid form of religion.

I think I should know how to educate a boy, but not a girl; I should be in danger of making her too learned.