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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONComradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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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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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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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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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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