I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.

Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten.

No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some good outside himself towards which his thought turns in a movement of desire, supplication, and hope.

Patriotism is idolatry of the self.