We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
G. K. CHESTERTONModern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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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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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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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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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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The past is not what it was.
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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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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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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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