It is always the secure who are humble.
G. K. CHESTERTONI am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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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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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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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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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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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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