Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA 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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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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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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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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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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