Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.

It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges.

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

I think there is and ultimate answer in a true religious faith, but it doesn't give you any immediate answers, it doesn't.

The scientific observer of the realm of nature is in a sense naturally and inevitably disinterested. At least, nothing in the natural scene can arouse his bias. Furthermore, he stands completely outside of the natural so that his mind, whatever his limitations, approximates pure mind. The observer of the realm of history cannot be disinterested in the same way, for two reasons: first, he must look at history from some locus in history; secondly, he is to a certain degree engaged in its ideological conflicts.

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

Man has always been his own most vexing problem.