I believe that good will prevail and that freedom can survive. The evil character demonstrated by the rulers behind the Iron Curtain has, I admit, shaken my firm acceptance of the innate goodness of all mankind. But 42 years of...
I believe that this world must ultimately make sense; that it is not just a casual jumble of beauty, ugliness, pleasure, and pain, but the expression of an unchanging purpose; which I suppose is another way of saying that I...
It would be easy to say, “Look up the Nicene Creed,” and leave it at that, but not helpful. To fulfill the purposes of this broadcast, it is at least necessary that I should make some attempt to explain how...
To live with an awareness of the tears of things; of the participation of all living things in a fellowship of pain, insecurity, anxiety, and death; to live with a bittersweet knowledge that I and all companionable living things are...
I am a geographer, which means that I am concerned with observing, recording, and mapping the differences between one part of the world and another, and with probing their causes and consequences. In the course of my job I’ve had...
In my judgment, the central aim of education and of life is to wed knowledge with wisdom, to enable men both to do, and to do what is good. As I grow older, my conviction deepens that knowledge without virtue...
What I believe makes a sort of signpost on the road joining my knowledge, which is very small, and my ignorance, which is very large. The night is too dark for me to read what it says, but I can...
Last August, I had the rare privilege of flying around the world with Paul Hoffman in the interest of the Ford Foundation. A very special study was made of Pakistan and India. I had read what to expect in these...
I believe, How easy to get so far, how hard to get much farther. Yet, certain beliefs I do definitely hold. They’re not, for the most part, the beliefs embodied in the Apostle’s creed. There, indeed, I find myself checked...
