Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONPeople generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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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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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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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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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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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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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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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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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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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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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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