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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.

G. K. Chesterton

Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Open Minded Stupidity Yourself
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Man Philosophy Secret Understand
Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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Audience People Right Wrong
A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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Courage Face Himself Ideas Person Wisdom
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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Angel Devil Faith Force Forget Fun Gravity Himself Light
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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Compatible Fight Happiness Man Marriage Survival Woman
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Destruction Silence Tolerance
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
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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Battle Divine Fight God Lose Oneself Perfection
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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Fight Hate Himself Love Soldier True
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
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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Around Death Democracy Tradition Vote Walk
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Seem
We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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Earth Exception Nature Wonder
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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Difference Exception Movement Philosophy Science

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