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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.

G. K. Chesterton

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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Faith Reality Reason Relationship Thinking
When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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Atheist Believe Choice God Man Mindset
Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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Champion Enemy Evil Man
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Sick Togetherness
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Destruction Silence Tolerance
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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Call Escape Fashion Leaving Tradition
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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Difference Exception Movement Philosophy Science
The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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Destiny Greatness Humanity Nation Ordinary Story
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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Audience People Right Wrong
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Open Minded Stupidity Yourself
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
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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Deep Media Silence Validation
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Faith Forgiveness Hope Love Sorry
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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Mom Nature Ourselves Relationship Religion Sister

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