No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.

The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on to find the positive conditions under which desired events take place, and that these can be just as scientifically investigated as can instances of negative correlation. This problem is beyond relativity.

I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.

liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others.

Traditional Anglo-Saxon intolerance is a local and temporal culture trait like any other.

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community