List of Arthur Keith Quotes

I Prize The Conditions Under Which I Have Lived Because They Have Permitted Me To Choose My Opportunities, To Inquire Into Such Matters As Interested Me, And To Publish What I Believed To Be True, Uncontrolled By Any Central Authority.

Under No Stretch Of Imagination Can War Be Regarded As An Ethical Process; Yet War, Force, Terror, And Propaganda Were The Evolutionary Means Employed To Weld The German People Into A Tribal Whole.

There Are Very Few Men And Women In Whom A Universalist Feeling Is Altogether Lacking; Its Prevalence Suggests That It Must Be Part Of Our Inborn Nature And Have A Place In Nature's Scheme Of Evolution.

Universalism As An Ideal Is As Old As Nay, Is Probably Much More Ancient Than The Christian Ideal.

It Is Just Because Civilization Is Ever Evolving, Changing, And Becoming More Complicated, That Experts Find It So Difficult To Define It In Explicit Terms.

Whichever Theory We Adopt To Give A Rational Explanation Of Human Existence, That Theory Must Take Into Account And Explain The Mental Nature We See At Work In All Modern Communities.

No Tribe Unites With Another Of Its Own Free Will.

Religious Leaders And Men Of Science Have The Same Ideals; They Want To Understand And Explain The Universe Of Which They Are Part; They Both Earnestly Desire To Solve, If A Solution Be Ever Possible, That Great Riddle: Why Are We Here?

Tolerance Is Held To Be A Condition Of Mind Which Is Encouraged By, And Is Necessary For, Civilization.

No Tempting Form Of Error Is Without Some Latent Charm Derived From Truth.

Good Men, Whether They Be Christians Or Rationalists, Do Not Desire To Discriminate Between Races, But The Distinctions Implanted By Nature Are Too Conspicuous To Escape The Observation Of Our Senses.

This World Of Ours Has Been Constructed Like A Superbly Written Novel: We Pursue The Tale With Avidity, Hoping To Discover The Plot.