Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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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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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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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.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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