The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
G. K. CHESTERTONAgnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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Fairy 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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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.
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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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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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