Self-righteousness Is The Inevitable Fruit Of Simple

Our Dreams Of Bringing The Whole Of Human History Under The Control Of The Human Will Are Ironically Refuted By The Fact That No Group Of Idealists Can Easily Move The Pattern Of History Toward The Desired Goal Of Peace And Justice. The Recalcitrant Forces In The Historical Drama Have A Power And Persistence Beyond Our Reckoning.

We Have, On The Whole, More Liberty And Less Equality Than Russia Has. Russia Has Less Liberty And More Equality. Whether Democracy Should Be Defined Primarily In Terms Of Liberty Or Equality Is A Source Of Unending Debate.

...(i)ndividual Selfhood Is Expressed In The Self's Capacity For Self-transcendence And Not In Its Rational Capacity For Conceptual And Analytic Procedures.

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.

We Take, And Must Continue To Take, Morally Hazardous Actions To Preserve Our Civilization. We Must Exercise Our Power. But We Ought Neither To Believe That A Nation Is Capable Of Perfect Disinterestedness In Its Exercise, Nor Become Complacent About A Particular Degree Of Interest And Passion Which Corrupt The Justice By Which The Exercise Of Power Is Legitimatized.