The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
G. K. CHESTERTONBeing a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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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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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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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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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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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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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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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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