Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures.

It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man's belief in justice that makes democracy possible.

Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer … Laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour is fulfilled by faith.

There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that's one of the great achievements.

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

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.