We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
G. K. CHESTERTONModern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Tradition 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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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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