A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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 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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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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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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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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