Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
G. K. CHESTERTONModern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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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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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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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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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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