A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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Passion makes every detail important.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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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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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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The past is not what it was.
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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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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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