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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONI 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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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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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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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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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 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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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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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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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A 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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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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 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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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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