Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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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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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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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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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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