One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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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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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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