It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONDear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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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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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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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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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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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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