Carl Lotus Becker

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

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

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

“Since history is not an objective reality, but only an imaginative reconstruction of vanished events, the pattern that appears useful and agreeable to one generation is never entirely so to...”