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.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

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.

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

We Protestants ought to humbly confess that the theater and the sports have done more for race amity, for race understanding than, on the whole, the Protestant Church in certain type, in certain parts of the nation.

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.