Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe 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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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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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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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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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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