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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

G. K. Chesterton

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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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Faith Reality Reason Relationship Thinking
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Believe Cleaning Perspective Water
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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Avoid Goodness Requirement Virtue Wife Woman Yourself
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Man Philosophy Secret Understand
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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Discipline Fear Happiness Promise Trouble Weird
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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Mom Nature Ourselves Relationship Religion Sister
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Choice Gratitude Life Yourself
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Dangerous Death Education Horrible People Serious
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Open Minded Stupidity Yourself
We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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Deep Media Silence Validation
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Choice Deep Difficult Reality Right
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Day Expectation Praise Way
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude

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