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.
G. K. CHESTERTONGod is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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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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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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The past is not what it was.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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