There are some desires that are not desirable.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONAll science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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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.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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