To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
G. K. CHESTERTONWhen a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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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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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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