The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
G. K. CHESTERTONI 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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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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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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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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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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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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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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