The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
G. K. CHESTERTONYou’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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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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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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The 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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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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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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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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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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