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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

G. K. Chesterton

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Cosmos Ego Stardom Understand
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Children Gratitude Ourselves Time
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Destruction Silence Tolerance
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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Fiction Journalism Life Oneself World
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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Belief Difficult God Heaven Himself
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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Atheist Believe Choice God Man Mindset
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Difference Disguise Ignorance Name Partial
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Heart Mindset Object Open
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Eyes Heart Intellectual Road
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Call Escape Fashion Leaving Tradition
I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Action God Knowledge Myself Practice
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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Fight Hate Himself Love Soldier True
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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Audience People Right Wrong

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