Quotes by : Carl Lotus Becker

We perceive, as from a great distance, a thousand years filled with dim shapes of men moving blindly,....

Since history is not an objective reality, but only an imaginative reconstruction of vanished events,....

Reason may be employed to support faith as well as to destroy it.

Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal....

All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound,....

a Philosopher could not grasp the modern idea of progress ... until he was willing to abandon ancestor....

Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.

Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.....