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.
G. K. CHESTERTONGod is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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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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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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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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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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Democracy 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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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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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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