The Fanatic Is Dangerous.

Nothing Which Is True Or Beautiful Or Good Makes Complete Sense In Any Immediate Context Of History; Therefore We Must Be Saved By Faith.

Our Dreams Of A Pure Virtue Are Dissolved In A Situation In Which It Is Possible To Exercise The Virtue Of Responsibility Toward A Community Of Nations Only By Courting The Prospective Guilt Of The Atomic Bomb.

What Is So Funny About Us Is Precisely That We Take Ourselves Too Seriously. Laughter Is The Same And Healthy Response To The Innocent Foibles Of Men; And Even To Some Which Are Not Innocent.

Man Has Always Been His Own Most Vexing Problem.

One Of The Most Pathetic Aspects Of Human History Is That Every Civilization Expresses Itself Most Pretentiously, Compounds Its Partial And Universal Values Most Convincingly, And Claims Immortality For Its Finite Existence At The Very Moment When The Decay Which Leads To Death Has Already Begun.