Politics deals with a common-sense approach to the imponderables of history, that I think are obscured by a certain kind of rationalism.

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

Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not.

Now the ordinary Protestant, Jew or Secularist has a stereotype about Catholicism. It consists of Spanish Catholicism, Latin-American Catholicism and, let us say, a Catholicism of O'Connor's "Great Hurrah." Now there are types of Catholicism like that but this doesn't - this doesn't do justice to the genuine relation that Catholicism has had to Democratic Society.

We have had to learn that history is neither a God nor a redeemer.

Politics deals with a common-sense approach to the imponderables of history, that I think are obscured by a certain kind of rationalism.

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.