All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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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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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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