Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.

The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.

We have, on the whole, more liberty and less equality than Russia has. Russia has less liberty and more equality. Whether democracy should be defined primarily in terms of liberty or equality is a source of unending debate.

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

There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and ``the good life,'' which had not been anticipated in our philosophy.

Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.

Man is endowed by nature with organic relations to his fellow men; and natural impulse prompts him to consider the needs of others even when they compete with his own.