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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONDipsomaniac 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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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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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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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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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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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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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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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