One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
G. K. CHESTERTONIdolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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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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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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