Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONAll science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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