Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONOnly man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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