It is always the secure who are humble.
G. K. CHESTERTONIf you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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The past is not what it was.
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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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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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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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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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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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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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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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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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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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