Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONEugenics 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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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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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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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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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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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