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

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

The idea that the profits of capital are really the rewards of a just society for the foresight and thrift of those who sacrificed the immediate pleasures of spending in order that society might have productive capital, had a certain validity in the early days of capitalism, when productive enterprise was frequently initiated through capital saved out of modest incomes.

We ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats - or Americans, whatever.

The final test of religious faith... is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether it can so interpret the ancient verities that they will not become mere escape hatches from responsibilities but instruments of insights into what civilization means.

Whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends.

That is the truth about man - that he has a curious kind of dignity, but also a curious kind of misery, and that these forms of agnosticism don't understand.