Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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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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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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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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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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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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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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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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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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