God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
G. K. CHESTERTONWithout education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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The past is not what it was.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship 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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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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