The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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Eugenics 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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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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