There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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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 Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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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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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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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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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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