One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
G. K. CHESTERTONA really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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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 way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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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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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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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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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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