Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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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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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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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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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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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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 past is not what it was.
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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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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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