Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONWhen it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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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.
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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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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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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 Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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