One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONChastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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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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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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