A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONBut 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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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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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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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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