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.
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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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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 may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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