There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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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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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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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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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 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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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