Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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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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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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