Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life. Reinhold Niebuhr More Quotes by Reinhold Niebuhr More Quotes From Reinhold Niebuhr I think that the Christian faith is right as against simple forms of secularism. That it believes that there is in man a radical freedom, and this freedom is creative but it is also destructive. And there's nothing that prevents this from being both creative and destructive. Reinhold Niebuhr simple christian believe Certainly, anybody who says, "in the eyes of God," is pretentious. Reinhold Niebuhr pretentious eye Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice. Reinhold Niebuhr family spirit justice This insinuation of the interests of the self into even the most ideal enterprises and most universal objectives, envisaged in moments of highest rationality, makes hypocrisy an inevitable by product of all virtuous endeavor. Reinhold Niebuhr moments hypocrisy self Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses. Reinhold Niebuhr impulse selfish humans All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion. Reinhold Niebuhr cooperation groups coercion Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others. Reinhold Niebuhr selfish satisfaction reason The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men. Reinhold Niebuhr politics men art Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it. Reinhold Niebuhr drawing battle life-is Aim for the stars and maybe you'll reach the sky. Reinhold Niebuhr government stars sky Man has always been his own most vexing problem. Reinhold Niebuhr problem men 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. Reinhold Niebuhr good-life achievement philosophy The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge. Reinhold Niebuhr finals effort limits Civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are qualified by their interests and corrupted by their prejudices. Reinhold Niebuhr intelligent civilization people Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems. Reinhold Niebuhr findings democracy problem I'm not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father. Reinhold Niebuhr kind attitude father As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command. Reinhold Niebuhr command economic groups I think I should know how to educate a boy, but not a girl; I should be in danger of making her too learned. Reinhold Niebuhr girl education boys We ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats - or Americans, whatever. Reinhold Niebuhr communist predicaments common There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that's one of the great achievements. Reinhold Niebuhr democratic achievement men
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