Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONBut 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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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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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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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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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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