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.
G. K. CHESTERTONGratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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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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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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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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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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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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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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