It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere 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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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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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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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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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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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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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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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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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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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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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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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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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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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