Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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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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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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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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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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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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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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