God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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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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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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