There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
G. K. CHESTERTONA thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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