There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA 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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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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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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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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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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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 may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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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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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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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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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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