There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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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 is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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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