Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes - Page 8

• For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.

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  Democracy, Problem, Method

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2010). “The Irony of American History”, p.13, University of Chicago Press

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• ...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures.

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  Self, Spirituality, Transcendence

  Reinhold Niebuhr (1996). “The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation : Human Nature”, p.25, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Better not read books in which you make acquaintance of the devil.

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  Book, Devil, Acquaintance

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• Politics deals with a common-sense approach to the imponderables of history, that I think are obscured by a certain kind of rationalism.

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  Thinking, Common Sense, Kind

  Fuente: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• Ninguna nación puede decir: "Capitularemos ante la tiranía antes que aceptar un destino especulativo, aceptar un destino absoluto como alternativa a uno especulativo".

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  Fate, Alternatives, Accepting

  Fuente: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• Even as rigorous a determinist as Karl Marx, who at times described the social behaviour of the bourgeoisie in terms which suggested a problem in social physics, could subject it at other times to a withering scorn which only the presupposition of moral responsibility could justify.

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  Responsibility, Bourgeoisie, Behaviour

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2012). “An Interpretation of Christian Ethics”, p.81, Westminster John Knox Press

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• To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.

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  Order, Effort, Social

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• The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fulness of life which each man seeks.

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  Men, Life Is, Bases

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2013). “Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics”, p.1, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Creo que debería haber un club en el que predicadores y periodistas pudieran reunirse y hacer que el sentimentalismo de unos coincidiera con el cinismo de los otros. Eso los acercaría bastante a la verdad.

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  Thinking, Together, Clubs

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)”, p.143, Library of America

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