One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONScience must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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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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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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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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