Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONEugenics 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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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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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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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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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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