The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONOne may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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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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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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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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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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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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