We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
G. K. CHESTERTONWe are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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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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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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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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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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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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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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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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