Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
G. K. CHESTERTONFairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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