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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.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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Reinhold Niebuhr
Age: 78 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 21
Died: 1971
Died: June 1
Ethicist
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Wright City
Missouri
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Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.
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The will-to-live becomes the will-to-power.
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Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not.
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Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.
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A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.
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Whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends.
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Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.
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