Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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