When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONTolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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