Walter Lippmann Quotes About Belief

• The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

  Walter Lippmann

  Stars, Lying, Moving

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.127, Transaction Publishers

• The unexamined life, said Socrates, is unfit to be lived by man. This is the virtue of liberty, and the ground on which we may justify our belief in it, that it tolerates error in order to serve truth.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Errors, Order

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). "The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy", p.233, Harvard University Press.

• Leaders are the custodians of a nation's ideals, of the beliefs it cherishes, of its permanent hopes, of the faith which makes a nation out of a mere aggregation of individuals.

  Walter Lippmann

  Leader, Custodians, Belief

• La decadencia de la decencia en la era moderna, la rebelión contra la ley y la buena fe, el tratamiento de los seres humanos como cosas, como meros instrumentos del poder y la ambición, es sin duda consecuencia de la decadencia de la creencia en el hombre como algo más que un animal animado por reflejos y reacciones químicas muy condicionadas. Porque, a menos que el hombre sea algo más que eso, no tiene derechos que nadie esté obligado a respetar, y no hay limitaciones a su conducta que esté obligado a obedecer.

  Walter Lippmann

  Ambición, Hombres, Animal

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). "The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy", p.129, Harvard University Press.

• Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

  Walter Lippmann

  Life, Thoughtful, Talking

  Walter Lippmann (1938). “The good society”, p.44, Transaction Publishers

• A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.

  Walter Lippmann

  Humildad, Orgullo, Hombres

  Walter Lippmann (1955). “Essays in the Public Philosophy”, p.151, Transaction Publishers

• Una vez que se tocan las biografías de los seres humanos, la idea de que las creencias políticas están determinadas lógicamente se derrumba como un globo pinchado.

  Walter Lippmann

  Political, Biographies, Balloons

  Walter Lippmann (1914). "Un prefacio a la política"

• So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.

  Walter Lippmann

  War, Sacrifice, Speech

  Walter Lippmann, John Morton Blum (1985). “Public philosopher: selected letters of Walter Lippmann”, Book Sales

• Todos somos cautivos de la imagen que tenemos en la cabeza: nuestra creencia de que el mundo que hemos experimentado es el mundo que realmente existe.

  Walter Lippmann

  Mundo, Creencia, Cautivos

• In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief

  Walter Lippmann

  Blood, Belief, Intolerance

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.182, Harvard University Press

• If somebody can create an absolute system of beliefs and rules of conduct that will guide a business man at eleven o'clock in the morning, a boy trying to select a career, a woman in an unhappy love affair--well then, surely no pragmatist will object. He insists only that philosophy shall come down to earth and be tried out there.

  Walter Lippmann

  Morning, Philosophy, Boys

  Walter Lippmann, Julien C. Sprott (2015). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”, p.145, University of Wisconsin Pres

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