A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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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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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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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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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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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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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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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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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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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 may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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