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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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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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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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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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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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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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