"When men can no longer be theists, they……" — Walter Lippmann
"When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists."
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183 Quotes by Walter Lippmann
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- A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his…
- We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very…
- The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved…
- A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human…
- When all think alike, then no one is thinking
- It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor.
- Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.
- Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
- There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.
- The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.
- Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.
- Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.