A key has no logic to its shape. Its logic is: it turns the lock.
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The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
Morality is always dreadfully complicated to a man who has lost all his principles.
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all of its conquerors.
To love means loving the unlovable.
To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable.
Faith means believing the unbelievable.
Hope means hoping when everything is hopeless.
Reason and Faith
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all. If you are merely a sceptic, you must sooner or later ask yourself the question, ‘Why should anything go right; even observation or deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements in the brain of a bewildered ape?’ The young sceptic says. ‘I have a right to think for myself.’ But the old sceptic, the complete sceptic, says, ‘I have no right to think for myself. I have no right to think at all.’
The greatest of all illusions is the illusion of familiarity.
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
He who marries the spirit of the times will soon be a widower.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.