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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

G. K. Chesterton

It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution
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
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Choice Deep Difficult Reality Right
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
Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Acceptance Agreement Authority Funny Intelligence
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Day Expectation Praise Way
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
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Call Escape Fashion Leaving Tradition
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective
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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Children Gratitude Ourselves Time
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Cosmos Ego Stardom Understand
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Destruction Silence Tolerance
There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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Business Difference Ideal State System
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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Mom Nature Ourselves Relationship Religion Sister

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