It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONScience must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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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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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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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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