The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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The past is not what it was.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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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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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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