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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.

G. K. Chesterton

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Acceptance Agreement Authority Funny Intelligence
The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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Choice Darkness Issues Light Side
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Determination Lose Mindset Success Thinking Yourself
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
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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Courage Face Himself Ideas Person Wisdom
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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Man Understand Window World Yourself
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Failure Home Success Work Worth
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.
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Earth Exception Nature Wonder
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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Battle Divine Fight God Lose Oneself Perfection
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Open Minded Stupidity Yourself
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Command Government Man Rule
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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Afraid Corruption Coward Devil Fake God Spiritual Stupidity

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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