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• Nuestra época no conoce más que la reacción, y salta de un extremo a otro.

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  Age, Leaps And Bounds, Reactions

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• There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and ``the good life,'' which had not been anticipated in our philosophy.

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  Good Life, Philosophy, Achievement

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2010). “The Irony of American History”, p.45, University of Chicago Press

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• We have previously suggested that philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more inclined to be generous than to grant social justice.

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  Powerful, Justice, Elements

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)”, p.288, Library of America

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• A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architec75tural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.

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  Wise, Art, Ignorance

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• What is so funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously. Laughter is the same and healthy response to the innocent foibles of men; and even to some which are not innocent.

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  Laughter, Men, Healthy

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• The more complex the world situation becomes, the more scientific and rational analysis you have to have, the less you can do with simple good will and sentiment.

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  Simple, Analysis, World

  ABC TV Interview with Mike Wallace, www.hrc.utexas.edu. April 27, 1958.

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• Ultimately freedom is necessary for a society, because every despotic society - for instance, the Russian society - lives on the basis of a rather implausible dogma - the Marxist dogma of world redemption through Communism.

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  Redemption, World, Dogma

  Fuente: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed.

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  Giving, Serenity, Grace

  "Serenity Prayer". Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr, 1951.

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• Men have never been individually self-sufficient.

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  Trabajo En Equipo, Hombres, Yo

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)”, p.456, Library of America

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• Religion mustn't interfere with the state - so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the separation of church and state.

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  America, Church, Principles

  Fuente: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• Nada de lo que hagamos, por virtuoso que sea, puede lograrse solo; por eso nos salva el amor.

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  Love, Accomplishment, Accomplished

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2010). "The Irony of American History", p.63, University of Chicago Press

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• I cannot worship the abstractions of virtue: she only charms me when she addresses herself to my heart, speaks through the love from which she springs.

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  Spring, Heart, Addresses

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• Lo que nos hace gracia es precisamente que nos tomamos demasiado en serio.

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  Felicidad, risa, alegría

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• The fanatic is dangerous.

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  Dangerous, Fanatics

  Fuente: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• We ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats - or Americans, whatever.

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  Common, Communist, Predicaments

  Fuente: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.

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  Effort, Finals, Limits

  1941 The Nature and Destiny of Man, vol.1.

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• That is the truth about man - that he has a curious kind of dignity, but also a curious kind of misery, and that these forms of agnosticism don't understand.

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  Men, Misery, Dignity

  Fuente: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• We have had to learn that history is neither a God nor a redeemer.

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  History, Redeemer

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• My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox text: "By their fruits shall ye know them."

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  Cristiano, Ateo, Actitud

  Fuente: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• To be religious is not to feel, but to be.

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  Religious, Feels

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• You can't say that religion or irreligion will give us a particular answer to the nuclear dilemma.

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  Giving, Answers, Nuclear

  Fuente: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• No sólo en Estados Unidos, sino también en Alemania, en Francia desde la guerra, en Alemania después de la Primera Guerra Mundial, la Alemania de Adenauer, éstas son las relaciones creativas del catolicismo con una sociedad libre que el estadounidense medio no aprecia plenamente.

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  War, Average, America

  Fuente: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• I've long ago felt, I have many Jewish friends and I very I think creative Jewish friends, and I've long felt that the average Christian didn't realize the tremendous capacity for civic righteousness among our Jewish people.

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  Christian, Thinking, Average

  Fuente: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• The Jews were the money-lenders of the Middle Ages so there's a stereotype of the slightly or more than slightly dishonest business man and this stereotype covers and obscures all the facts.

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  Hombres, Edad, Hechos

  Fuente: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• The nuclear age has refuted the idea of progress and Marxism has been refuted by Stalinism. Therefore people have returned to the historic religion.

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  Ideas, People, Age

  Fuente: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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