Here lay the political genius of Franklin Roosevelt: that in his own time he knew what were the questions that had to be answered, even though he himself did not always find the full answer.

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

Love endures when the lovers love many things together And not merely each other.

At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version of history. To human nature (of the sort conceived), in a universe (of the kind imagined), after a history (so understood), the rules of the code apply.

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.