It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
G. K. CHESTERTONAn adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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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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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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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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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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