Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
G. K. CHESTERTONTolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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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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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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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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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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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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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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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 State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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