The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
G. K. CHESTERTONWe should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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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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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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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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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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