A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
G. K. CHESTERTONOne may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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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 whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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