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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.

G. K. Chesterton

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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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Difference Exception Movement Philosophy Science
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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Fiction Journalism Life Oneself World
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Art Draw Moral Sketch
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Astonishment Brain Life Rise Spiritual Sun
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
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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Enough Experience Lying Perfection
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Believe Faith Impossible Inspirational
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution
Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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Champion Enemy Evil Man
The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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Choice Darkness Issues Light Side
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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Afraid Himself Man Woman
A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Construction Creation Existence Love
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Day Expectation Praise Way
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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Destiny Greatness Humanity Nation Ordinary Story
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Ourselves Philosophy Phone Science Talk
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need Reminder
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking
You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution Yourself
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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Fight Hate Himself Love Soldier True
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
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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Earth Exception Nature Wonder
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Eyes Heart Intellectual Road
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Lost Love Realization
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