We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
G. K. CHESTERTONRight is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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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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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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