Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONDo not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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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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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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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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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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