Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
G. K. CHESTERTONA dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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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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[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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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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