Human Beings Can Attain A Worthy And

In Their Struggle For The Ethical Good, Teachers Of Religion Must Have The Stature To Give Up The Doctrine Of A Personal God, That Is, Give Up That Source Of Fear And Hope Which In The Past Placed Such Vast Power In The Hands Of Priests. In Their Labors They Will Have To Avail Themselves Of Those Forces Which Are Capable Of Cultivating The Good, The True, And The Beautiful In Humanity Itself. This Is, To Be Sure, A More Difficult But An Incomparably More Worthy Task.

If I Had Only One Hour To Save The World, I Would Spend Fifty-five Minutes Defining The Problem, And Only Five Minutes Finding The Solution.

But Without Deeper Reflection One Knows From Daily Life That One Exists For Other People--first Of All For Those Upon Whose Smiles And Well-being Our Own Happiness Is Wholly Dependent, And Then For The Many, Unknown To Us, To Whose Destinies We Are Bound By The Ties Of Sympathy.

The Satisfaction Of Physical Needs Is Indeed The Indispensable Pre-condition Of A Satisfactory Existence, But In Itself It Is Not Enough. In Order To Be Content, Men Must Also Have The Possibility Of Developing Their Intellectual And Artistic Powers To Whatever Extent Accords With Their Personal Characteristics And Abilities.

You Do Not Really Understand Something Unless You Can Explain It To Your Grandmother.