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.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.

Toleration of people who differ in convictions and habits requires a residual awareness of the complexity of truth and the possibility of opposing view having some light on one or the other facet of a many-sided truth.

For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.

To be religious is not to feel, but to be.

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