The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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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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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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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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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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