Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
G. K. CHESTERTONTolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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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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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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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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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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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 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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