The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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 is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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