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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

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
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Fight Love Yourself
Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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Champion Enemy Evil Man
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
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
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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Around Death Democracy Tradition Vote Walk
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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Faith Reality Reason Relationship Thinking
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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Avoid Goodness Requirement Virtue Wife Woman Yourself
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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Deep Desire Enough Philosophy
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Man Philosophy Secret Understand
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Destruction Silence Tolerance
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Seem

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