Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
G. K. CHESTERTONAgnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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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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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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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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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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