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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONModern 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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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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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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.
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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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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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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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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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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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