God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
G. K. CHESTERTONWhen a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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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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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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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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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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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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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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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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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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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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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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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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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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