Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
G. K. CHESTERTONTradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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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 need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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