All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe 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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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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The 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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