Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONLaughter 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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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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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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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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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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