The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONIt is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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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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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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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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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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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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