Quotes by Carl Lotus Becker, The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers

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Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas. — Carl Lotus Becker, The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers
Reason may be employed to support faith as well as to destroy it. — Carl Lotus Becker, The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers
Since history is not an objective reality, but only an imaginative reconstruction of vanished events, the pattern that a — Carl Lotus Becker, The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers
Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life. — Carl Lotus Becker, The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers
All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, — Carl Lotus Becker, The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers
We perceive, as from a great distance, a thousand years filled with dim shapes of men moving blindly, performing strange — Carl Lotus Becker, The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers
Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to concl — Carl Lotus Becker, The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers