We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
G. K. CHESTERTONTolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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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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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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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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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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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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