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.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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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 main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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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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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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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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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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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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