Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONCatholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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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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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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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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All 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 society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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