Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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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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It is always the secure who are humble.
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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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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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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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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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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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