A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONScience must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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