The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
G. K. CHESTERTONAt the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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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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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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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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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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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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