Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONChristianity 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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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