Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONScience must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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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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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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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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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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