Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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.
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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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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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