Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe 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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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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