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  • "Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we're not sure that we're most sure."
    - Reinhold Niebuhr (US Protestant theologian. 1892-1971)

  • " Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary."
    - Reinhold Niebuhr

  • "He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser."
    - Friedrich Nietzsche (German philosopher. 1844-1900)

  • "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself."
    - Friedrich Nietzsche

  • Under Communism, the Poles are fond of saying, only the future is certain: the past is always changing.
    - G. Warren Nutter (US Economist. 1923–1979) The Strange World of Ivan Ivanov. New York and Cleveland: World Publishing, 1969

  • "Wagner's music is better than it sounds."
    - Bill Nye (US homourist. 1850-1896), quoted in Mark Twain's Autobiography, 1924



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