The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
G. K. CHESTERTONHope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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