Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONAgainst a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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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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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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