God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
G. K. CHESTERTONThere are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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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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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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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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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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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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