There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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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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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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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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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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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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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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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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