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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Minded Open
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Education Justice Learning
A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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Christian Orthodoxy Sin
Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Dark Flower Sky
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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Love Trust Way World
Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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Doctrine Sin Year
Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Dog Funny Spiritual
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Country Earth Rich Scum
The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Christian Mass Reckless
I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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Church Need Thinking
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Fashion Health Men View
I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Art Beautiful Beauty
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Art Brain Spiritual
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Christian Gratitude Test
Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Food Important Science
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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Bath Believe Practice
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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Men Secret Sublime
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Beautiful Beauty Broken Heart
Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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Artist Wisdom Wise
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Acceptance Knowledge Star
Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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Eye Spring Story Sunset
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Error Truth Understand
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Impose Philosophy Telephone
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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