Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONTolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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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 historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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