Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
G. K. CHESTERTONScience must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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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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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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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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The past is not what it was.
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