Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONWhen it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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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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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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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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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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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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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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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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