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.
G. K. CHESTERTONDemocracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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Stick 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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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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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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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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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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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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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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