Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONDipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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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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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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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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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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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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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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