Ralph Barton Perry Quotes
- I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.
- Ignorance deprives people of freedom because they do not know what alternatives there are. It is impossible to choose to do what one has never…
- A man can do his best only by confidently seeking (and perpetually missing) an unattainable perfection.
- Humanitarianism needs no apology. Unless we ... feel it toward all men without exception, we shall have lost the chief redeeming force in human history.
- What is needed in the present plight of mankind is not more science but a change of heart that shall move mankind to devote to…
- The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy what he has earned, but the ;thesis that…
- Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind.
- If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, it is not merely because evil deeds may be performed in the name of patriotism, but…
- Puritanism prolonged in America the medieval Christian view of the world and of human destiny. It taught men to distrust their natural inclinations as well…