Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
G. K. CHESTERTONWhen it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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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 most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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