Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONCatholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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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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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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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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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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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All government is an ugly 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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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