Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.
absence self
The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.
miracles order
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
revolution order
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
success
I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success. I can guide you to the thrones of the Super-men. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
men success
Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
science
As for science and religion, the known and admitted facts are few and plain enough. All that the parsons say is unproved. All that the doctors say is disproved. That's the only difference between science and religion there's ever been, or will be.
science religion
The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.
infinity mind light
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
religion
virtues
Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
faith
When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
obscurity
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists, as the mother can love the unborn child.
For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.
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