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All government is an ugly necessity.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Acceptance Knowledge Star
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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Church Need Thinking
A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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Christian Orthodoxy Sin
I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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Matter Want Writing
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Beautiful Beauty Broken Heart
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Hate Ignorance People You
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Modern Silence Tyranny
The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Christian Order Running
The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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Country People Regard Riddle
Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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Ancient Pride Unfreese
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Christianity Morality Religion
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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Believe Country Government People
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Impose Philosophy Telephone
Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Believe Fear Running
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Book Hero Read
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Atheism Fear People

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