The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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The past is not what it was.
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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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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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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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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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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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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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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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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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