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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONWe’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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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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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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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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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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