A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe 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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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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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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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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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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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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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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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