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All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

Reinhold Niebuhr

There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and ”the good life,” which had not been anticipated in our philosophy.
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Achievement Good Life Philosophy
What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.
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Happiness Joy Laughter
Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.
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Form Modern
The Communists do have a god, the Dialectic of History, which guarantees everything that they’re going to do and guarantees them victory; that’s why they’re fanatic.
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Communist Guarantees Victory
All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.
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Coercion Cooperation Groups
I think there is and ultimate answer in a true religious faith, but it doesn’t give you any immediate answers, it doesn’t.
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Giving Religious Thinking
I’m not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.
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Attitude Father Kind
In the 17th and 18th centuries there was a kind of Protestantism that said, “If you could only get rid of the Bishop, then you’d be a true Christian”.
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Bishops Christian Kind
It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man’s belief in justice that makes democracy possible.
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Evil Justice Men
For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.
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Desire Historical Men
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can only be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
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Justice Life Rights
All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
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Humans Intention Sin
All known existence points beyond itself.
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Existence Known Points
To be religious is not to feel, but to be.
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Feels Religious
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
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Accomplishment Lifetime Success
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
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Achievement Moving Wisdom

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

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