Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life. Reason may extend and stabilise, but...

Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life. Reason may
extend and stabilise, but it does not create, the capacity to affirm other life than his own.

quote by Reinhold Niebuhr
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