Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONEducation 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 present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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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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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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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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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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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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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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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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