An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONOne 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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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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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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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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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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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 test of happiness is gratitude.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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