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The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.

Reinhold Niebuhr

That’s much more dangerous than when people don’t believe anything; they may be confused, they may not have a sense of the meaning of life, but they’re not dangerous.
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Dangerous Life Meaning More Much
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
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Age Bound Leaps Reaction
My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox text: “By their fruits shall ye know them.”
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Atheist Attitude Christian
We Protestants ought to humbly confess that the theater and the sports have done more for race amity, for race understanding than, on the whole, the Protestant Church in certain type, in certain parts of the nation.
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Race Sports Understanding
History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.
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Humans Natural Realms
Aim for the stars and maybe you’ll reach the sky.
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Government Sky Stars
Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.
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Confusion Political Relative Value
Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life’s ethical problems.
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Men Problem Way
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
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Cures Pride Religion
What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.
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Happiness Joy Laughter
The significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all law.
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Law Love Significance
History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.
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History Law May
At least, nothing in the natural scene can arouse his bias. Furthermore, he stands completely outside of the natural so that his mind, whatever his limitations, approximates pure mind.
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Approximately Complete Leat Mind
The more complex the world situation becomes, the more scientific and rational analysis you have to have, the less you can do with simple good will and sentiment.
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Analysis Simple World
Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.
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Done Evil Good People
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.
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Country Democracy Liberty People

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