The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
G. K. CHESTERTONThere are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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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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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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When 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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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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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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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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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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The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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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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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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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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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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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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