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. CHESTERTONStick 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.
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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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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 evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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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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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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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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