But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONI don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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At 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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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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