You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
G. K. CHESTERTONGod is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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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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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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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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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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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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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 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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Passion makes every detail important.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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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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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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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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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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We 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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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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