Faith means believing the unbelievable.
G. K. CHESTERTONA society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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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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Passion makes every detail important.
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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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