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.
G. K. CHESTERTONStick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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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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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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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.
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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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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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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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The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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