Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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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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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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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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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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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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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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