A man can do his best only by confidently seeking (and perpetually missing) an unattainable perfection. — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
As a reformer the liberal is dissatisfied with things as they are because they violate his exceptionally tender conscience.... Liberalism does not advocate change… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind. — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
What is needed in the present plight of mankind is not more science but a change of heart that shall move mankind to devote… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
Ignorance deprives people of freedom because they do not know what alternatives there are. It is impossible to choose to do what one has… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
Indeed I am inclined to go so far as to say that the one cause for which one may properly make war is the… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
Puritanism prolonged in America the medieval Christian view of the world and of human destiny. It taught men to distrust their natural inclinations as… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
A man can do his best only by confidently seeking (and perpetually missing) an unattainable perfection. — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
The English mind is intelligent rather than intellectual. The French are intellectual in the sense that the intellect is emancipated and left free to… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
This insistence on "having his say upon the universe" is the profoundest motive of William James thinking as well as of his filial gratitude. — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
Humanitarianism needs no apology, even when its objects are Russians or Communists. Unless we recover that concern and feel it toward all men without… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
Humanitarianism needs no apology. Unless we ... feel it toward all men without exception, we shall have lost the chief redeeming force in human history. — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
