Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONArt is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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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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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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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