Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONOriginal sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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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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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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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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