For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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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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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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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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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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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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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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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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