Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life. (Reinhold Niebuhr)

Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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