Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
G. K. CHESTERTONDo not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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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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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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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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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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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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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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