Rationalism belongs to the cool observer. But because of the stupidity of the average person, they follow not reason, but faith. This naïve faith, requires necessary illusions and emotionally potent oversimplifications, which are provided by the myth maker to keep the ordinary person on course.

The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.

The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.

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

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.

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

All known existence points beyond itself.