Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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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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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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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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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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