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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Impose Philosophy Telephone
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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Art Brain Spiritual
Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Atheism Heaven Nihilism
The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Christian Order Running
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Doubtful Men Pilot
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Atheism Fear People
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Hate Ignorance People You
There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Goes Intelligent Trying
I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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Bath Believe Practice
People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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Adventure Doubt Men
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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Men Secret Sublime
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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Catholic Glasses Wine
It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Apologetic Arguing Men
Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Food Important Science
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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Country People Regard Riddle
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Acceptance Knowledge Star